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EVANS, DAVID (Dewi Dawel; 1814 - 1891), tailor, publican, and poet Born 16 September 1814, at Cefnffordd, Pen-y-garn, Llanfynydd parish, Carmarthenshire. His father, Thomas Evans, tailor, Pen-y-garn, was drowned in the river Cothi at Edwinsford, 9 December 1833, leaving nine children. Starting life as a tailor, Dewi Dawel worked from house to house until he was married on 10 November 1837 to Mary Davies, Maes-yr-haidd, Llanfynydd (died 7 May 1867); they brought
EVANS, DAVID (Dewi Haran; 1812 - 1885), auctioneer, valuer, land agent, and poet
EVANS, DAVID DELTA (Dewi Hiraddug; 1866 - 1948), journalist, author and Unitarian minister ministered in Southend-on-Sea, 1905-09, Portsmouth High Street, 1909-10, Woolwich, London 1913-17, Bermondsey, 1921-29 and Ilford, 1929-32. He visited the Unitarian Society's meetings in Cardiganshire and Glamorganshire. Many of his articles appeared in Y Gwyliedydd Newydd, and issues of Yr Ymofynydd were sprinkled with his contributions, written under his name, Delta, DDE and Dewi Hiraddug. He also used
EVANS, GWYNFOR RICHARD (1912 - 2005), Welsh nationalist and politician 1955 (drafted by one of Gwynfor's greatest supporters, Dewi Watkin Powell), the petition was attracting signatories by the thousands, including in the valleys of the south. By 1955 Gwynfor had good reason to believe that his dual strategy of running campaigns and fighting elections was beginning to bear fruit. He could present the decision of Churchill's Conservative Government to appoint a Minister
EVANS, JOHN JAMES (1894 - 1965), teacher and writer Rhys a'i amserau). His handbooks on Welsh idioms and on cynghanedd were awarded prizes at the Cardiff Eisteddfod of 1938. Llawlyfr y Cynganeddion was published by the University of Wales Press in 1946 and reprinted in 1951. Evans also published Cymry enwog y ddeunawfed ganrif (1937), Gramadeg Cymraeg (1946 and 1960), Dewi Sant a'i amserau (1963), and Diarhebion Cymraeg (1965). He contributed several
EVANS, TREBOR LLOYD (1909 - 1979), minister (Indepedent) and author Roberts, a teacher from Blaenau Ffestiniog. They had been fellow students in Bangor. They had three children – Elisabeth Lloyd in 1938, Robert Lloyd in 1941 and Dewi Pierce Lloyd in 1947. Trebor Lloyd Evans soon became well kown as a powerful and impressive preacher. He enjoyed working with children and young people in Dyffryn Nantlle, where he experienced Welsh culture at its best. He was equally
EVANS, WILLIAM (bu farw 1718), Dissenting minister and academy tutor into Welsh by William Evans himself, and published in 1707; there is evidence too, that he wrote a foreword (dated 24 June 1716) to another edition of the same catechism, originally published by Matthew Henry in 1702, and now translated by James Davies (Iaco ap Dewi, 1648 - 1722). Jeremy Owen calls William Evans 'God's gift to his people.' He died probably towards the end of 1718.
EVANS, WILLIAM EILIR (Eilir; 1852 - 1910), cleric, poet, and journalist Capel Dewi near Llandysul, Cardiganshire) assistant-master and chaplain of Stratford-on-Avon grammar school. In 1889 he became editor of the Carmarthen Journal. He removed to Swansea in 1891, and in 1894 to Cardiff, where he was for thirteen years leader-writer to the Western Mail, and at times voluntary curate in S. David's church. Retiring in 1907 from his newspaper post (owing to the state of his
GRUFFUDD, IFAN (c. 1655 - c. 1734), poet wyneb yngwrthwyneb ' printed in Meddylieu Neillduol ar Grefydd (1717). He produced a number of englynion and at least one 'summer carol.' We hear of him being present at the Machynlleth eisteddfod, 1702, where he was lampooned by Siôn Rhydderch. Iaco ab Dewi wrote a poem in his honour, while Siencyn Thomas of Cwm-du and Alban Thomas of Blaen-porth wrote elegies upon him.
GWYNFARDD BRYCHEINIOG (fl. c. 1180), poet Nothing of his work now remains except two poems: ' Canu y Dewi ' ('a poem to Saint David ') and ' Awdyl yr Arglwydd Rys ' ('an awdl to the lord Rhys '); see Hendregadredd MS. 197-207. His name suggests that he was a native of Brecknock; in his ' Canu y Dewi ' he refers to the 'parish of llanddewi where I worship' and it may be that he is referring to one of the places of that name in that county
HENRY, PHILIP (1631 - 1696), Presbyterian minister and diarist larger translation in four volumes was published at Swansea, 1828-35. Of less ambitious works of his, several were translated into Welsh, some by James Davies (Iaco ap Dewi, 1648 - 1722). A rich collection of the various editions of Henry's works is lodged in the Salesbury library at Cardiff University College. He had been a student at Nonconformist Academies, and had entered Gray's Inn in 1685. It was
HIMBURY, DAVID MERVYN (1922 - 2008), minister (Bapt) and college principal in January 1951 and in 1957 marked the ter-jubilee of the College with the publication of his book entitled, The South Wales Baptist College (1807-1957). He married Gwladys Marion Phillips from Caersalem, Llanelli, in 1951. Two sons, Philip Maelor Himbury and Dewi Michael Himbury were born to them. The family settled in Peterston-super-Ely in the Vale of Glamorgan and while there Mervyn Himbury had

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