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EVANS, WILLIAM EMRYS (1924 - 2004), banker and philanthropist Midland Bank'. He was unwell during the last year of his life, but he made a great effort to keep his commitments. In 1946, he married Mair Thomas and they had one daughter. Emrys and Mair Evans lived in London while he was at the bank's head office and then they moved to South Wales in 1972 when they settled at Dinas Powys in a house named after his childhood home. He died at his home in Dinas Powys on
EVANS, WILLIAM GARETH (1941 - 2000), historian and university lecturer in education many spheres that he was promoted to a richly deserved (and indeed long overdue) Senior Lectureship in 1991, and within three years he had again been promoted to the title and grade of university reader. There can be no doubt that, had he survived, Gareth Evans would soon have been awarded a personal chair by the University of Wales. He married on 15 October 1966 Kathleen Thomas, and they had two
EVANS, WILLIAM HUGH (Gwyllt y Mynydd; 1831 - 1909), Wesleyan minister and man of letters the Second North Wales District 1924-33; in 1930 he was elected one of the Legal Hundred of his denomination. He retired in that year to Prestatyn, and died there 16 July 1936 - he was buried at Rhyl. He was considered a very good preacher, in either language. Besides his biography of his father, and a book on Thomas Coke, he published several commentaries; he also wrote much for the Eurgrawn and
EVANS-JONES, CYNAN ALBERT - gweler JONES, Sir CYNAN ALBERT EVANS
EVERETT, ROBERT (1791 - 1875), Independent ministers , where, for the greater part of the time, he was under the care of George Lewis who offered to make him joint principal. In 1815 he was ordained minister of Swan Lane, Denbigh. In 1823 he emigrated to the U.S.A. to take charge of the Welsh church at Utica. He achieved an honourable place among the foremost ministers in Wales; Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan, 1809 - 1880) considered him to be as impressive a
FAGAN, THOMAS WALLACE (1874 - 1951), agricultural chemist Born 4 February 1874 at Talysarn, Caernarfonshire, son of James Wallace and Katherine Fagan. He was educated in the local school, Denstone College, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, and graduated in 1898. He was for a short period chemistry master in Abertillery secondary school (his successor in that post was Thomas Jacob Thomas, ' Sarnicol ', and then went to study under the professors
FARRINGTON, RICHARD (1702 - 1772), cleric and antiquary The son of Robert Farrington of Chester and Elizabeth (Jones) of Cefn Ysgwydd, Llechylched, Anglesey. In 1720 he entered Jesus College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1724. His first charge as curate may have been at Gresford, whence he removed to Bromfield. In 1739 he became attached to St Asaph Cathedral. In 1741 he was appointed vicar of Llanwnda-cum-Llanfaglan, residing at Dinas. In 1742
FENTON, RICHARD (1747 - 1821), poet and topographical writer poems (1773 and 1790); and he left many works in manuscript. [These manuscripts were bought in 1858 by Sir Thomas Phillipps, and are now in the Cardiff City Library; a selection was edited by John Fisher and published in 1917 as Tours in Wales, 1804-1813, by Richard Fenton. When in London, Fenton was a member of the Cymmrodorion and in 1778 was one of its two librarians; there is a kindly reference to
FFRANCON-THOMAS, DAVID - gweler THOMAS, DAVID FFRANGCON
FFRANGCON-DAVIES, GWEN LUCY (1891 - 1992), actress production exploring hope after war, Gwen played Eve in George Bernard Shaw's 1924 play-cycle, Back to Methuselah, again receiving many plaudits. This interwar period was a particularly rich one for Gwen. In 1925, in London, she played Tess in Thomas Hardy's own adaptation of his novel Tess of the Durbervilles. As Hardy was frail, the whole cast travelled to Dorset where Gwen performed the 'confession
FFRANGCON-THOMAS, DAVID - gweler THOMAS, DAVID FFRANGCON
FISON, ANNA (Morfydd Eryri; 1839 - 1920), linguist, poet and educator She was born on 14 February 1839, at Barmingham, Suffolk, the daughter of Thomas Fison by his second wife, Charlotte, and the youngest of his twenty children. She was educated in London, at Cheltenham, and on the Continent; she went to live with one of her brothers at Oxford, and became proficient in the classics and a number of modern languages. She began, too, to take an interest in Welsh at

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