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EVANS, WILLIAM EDWARD (1801 - 1869), canon of Hereford - gweler EVANS, JOHN
EVANS, WILLIAM EILIR (Eilir; 1852 - 1910), cleric, poet, and journalist health), he passed the rest of his days as curate at Llancarfan in the Vale of Glamorgan. In 1910 he published a selection of his poems and articles, Rhyddiaith a Chân. He died 7 December 1910. In Eilir's early days there existed at Newcastle Emlyn a circle of poets which included among its members Myfyr Emlyn (Benjamin Thomas, 1836 - 1893), Rhys Dyfed (Rees Arthur Rees), and others. Under their
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 son of Ioan Tachwedd (John Evans, 1790 - 1856) and brother of Cynfaen (John Hugh Evans). Born at Maenllwyd Mawr, Ysgeifiog, Flintshire, 13 January 1831, he left school early because his father would not permit him to learn the catechism of the Established Church. He began to preach in 1850, was received into the ministry in 1855, and was called to minister to the Holyhead circuit in 1856
EVANS, WILLIAM JOHN (1866 - 1947), musician Born 29 November 1866, at Aberdare, Glamorganshire. He was apprenticed to his father, Rhys Evans and worked with him in his tailoring business. He was given every encouragement at home to cultivate and develop his musical talent and he devoted himself wholeheartedly to the pursuit of music. After his appointment as organist of Siloa Chapel, Aberdare, he was called upon to give organ recitals in
EVANS, WILLIAM MEIRION (1826 - 1883), miner, Calvinistic Methodist minister in U.S.A. and Australia, and editor of journals published in Australia Born 12 August 1826 at Isallt Fawr, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Caernarfonshire His parents, Edmund and Mary Evans, moved to Gatws y Parc, Llanfrothen, and from there the son started to work in the Ffestiniog slate quarries. He emigrated to Australia, landing in Adelaide on 19 May 1849. He worked in the Yuttala copper mines, the Willinga slate quarries and later at the copper mines of Burrah, about
EVANS, WILLIAM OWEN (1864 - 1936), Wesleyan minister - gweler EVANS, WILLIAM HUGH
EVANS-JONES, CYNAN ALBERT - gweler JONES, Sir CYNAN ALBERT EVANS
EVANS-WILLIAMS, LAURA (1883 - 1944), singer Eldest daughter of John and Ellen Evans, born at Bryn Meirion, Henllan, Denbighshire, 7 September 1883. She was educated at Howell's School, Denbigh, and at the Royal Academy of Music, London. She began her career as a contralto, winning prizes at several eisteddfodau; at the Academy she studied under Edward Iles who developed her voice as a lyric soprano. She became widely known as a concert and
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

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