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EVANS, JOHN (Ioan Tachwedd; 1790 - 1856), poet and Wesleyan minister He composed a considerable amount of verse, which appeared in Y Drysorfa and Yr Eurgrawn. He died 2 May 1856. John Hugh Evans (Cynfaen) was his son.
EVANS, JOHN (1723 - 1817), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter he was officially given the status of exhorter. He acquired great repute as one of the most reliable leaders of North Wales Methodism; his ready wit was matched by acute observation and wise judgement. The scheme for paying for chapels by small regular contributions was of his devising. When Thomas Charles settled at Bala, John Evans became his right-hand man. By the end of the century he had
EVANS, JOHN (1815 - 1891), archdeacon of Merioneth Born 4 March 1815, son of John Evans of Tan-y-coed, Llanfair, Meironnydd, and Anne, daughter of John Owen of Crafnant, Llanfair. His mother was a descendant of Edmwnd Prys. He was educated at Beaumaris grammar school. He then became a clerk in the office of David Williams, solicitor, who was at that time M.P. for the county of Merioneth. His wife Mary, of Saethon, was a cousin of David Williams
EVANS, JOHN (1858 - 1963), minister (Congl.) and professor at the Memorial College, Brecon Born 12 May 1858 at Erwan Fach, Llangrannog, Cardiganshire, son of David and Eleanor Evans. He had very little formal education in childhood though he did for a while attend the school held by ' Cranogwen ' at Pontgarreg. After the 1868 general election the family was ejected from their home because the father had voted for the Liberal candidate, and they moved to Pant-teg farm near New Quay
EVANS, JOHN (1840 - 1897), Wesleyan minister U.S.A. on preaching tours in 1873 and 1887, was elected a member of the Legal Hundred of his denomination (1884) and chairman of the South Wales province (1895), and delivered the 'Provincial Lecture' in 1886. His principal lectures dealt with: the Four Denominations; Bishop Morgan; Thomas Aubrey; and the Power of Custom. He edited Y Winllan, 1878-9, and, in connection with the Pontypridd mission
EVANS, JOHN (1796 - 1861), schoolmaster helped to send Evans to a school conducted by Griffith Davies, the famous actuary. There he made rapid progress in mathematics.After keeping school at Llanfair Caereinion and Llanidloes, he returned to Aberystwyth about 1821 (or earlier, for his tombstone states that he was a schoolmaster for forty-four years) to open his famous school, ' The Mathematical and Commercial School,' in Chalybeate Street
EVANS, JOHN (1737? - 1784), Methodist exhorter -y-cwm in March 1784 - the diarist William Thomas says he was 'about 47.' A collection was made for his wife and children at the Llangeitho Association, 1785. One of his sons was John Evans of Llandovery, and later of Llandilo, a dry and quarrelsome preacher who, before he died, joined the Church of England.
EVANS, JOHN (1651? - 1724), bishop of Bangor and later of Meath is said by Browne Willis (who wrote in 1721 during Evans's lifetime) to have been born at Plas Du, Llanarmon, Caernarfonshire. Needless to say, he was not one of the Owens, original owners of Plas Du, two of whom figure elsewhere in this work, for they had left the place before his time. Where exactly his family came from is far from clear. Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd), in Y Brython, iv, 422
EVANS, JOHN (Y Bardd Cocos; 1827? - 1888), eccentric and poetaster alone scansion [ William McGonagall will supply a parallel from Scotland]. Evans is included in the present work as perhaps the sublimest example of his class. He was, indeed, hardly quite sane, and the wags of his neighbourhood had great sport with him; they enthroned him as 'Princely Arch-cockle-bard', in regalia consisting of a long thick overcoat and a hat encircled with coloured beads; in this
EVANS, JOHN (c. 1680 - 1730), Presbyterian minister and theologian The son of John Evans (1628 - 1700) by Katherine, widow of Vavasor Powell and daughter of colonel Gilbert Gerard, governor of Chester castle for Charles I. He was born at Wrexham, educated at Dissenting academies at Newington Green (c. 1694) and Rathmell, Yorkshire, and studied the early Fathers under James Owen of Oswestry. He became chaplain to Mrs. Rowland Hunt of Boreatton, Salop, and shortly
EVANS, JOHN (bu farw 1779), Evangelical cleric, translator, and commentator Born at Meini Gwynion, Llanbadarn Odwyn (now Llangeitho), Cardiganshire. He is said to have been educated at Oxford, and to have graduated [but he cannot be identified in Foster's Alumni, and there has been considerable confusion between him and John Evans, 1702 - 1782 ]. His first curacy was at Llanarth, Cardiganshire; then he became curate at Plymouth, to be known henceforth as 'the parson of
EVANS, JOHN (1830 - 1917), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and biographer Born 20 November 1830, son of David (who died when the son was two years old) and Sarah Evans, Penlôn, Llanbadarn-trefeglwys, Cardiganshire. Brought up though he was in poverty, his love of reading made up for his scant education, and his devotion to Sunday school work led to his being pressed to start preaching (1853). After four years at Trevecka (1856-60), he was in 1861 called to the

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