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EVANS, Sir DAVID OWEN (1876 - 1945), barrister, industrialist and politician Born 5 February 1876 in Penbryn, Cardiganshire, son of William Evans, farmer, and his wife. He was educated at Llandovery College and the Imperial College of Science, London. In 1896 he entered the Civil Service and was attached to the Inland Revenue Department. He married 1899, Kate Morgan. Whilst in the Civil Service he studied law and was called to the Bar at Gray's Inn in 1909. He practised
EVANS, HAROLD MEURIG (1911 - 2010), teacher, lexicographer two Emeritus Professors, namely Derec Llwyd Morgan and the late Hywel Teifi Edwards, Gareth Jones who was at that time Director of Education for Cardiganshire and Dr. Huw Walters, Head of the Bibliography of Wales Unit at the National Library of Wales. When Hywel Teifi Edwards was approached regarding the nomination his response was “My dear girl, where on earth have you been till now?”. However
EVANS, HENRY (fl. 1787-1839), Arminian Baptist minister appears in Titus Lewis's list, 1810, printed by David Peter in his Hanes Crefydd yng Nghymru. However, on 5 December 1792 Evans was ordained pastor of Craig-y-fargod General Baptist church (see under Charles Winter), by David Saunders I of Aberduar and Morgan John Rhys (Rippon, Baptist Register, i, 523) - a renewal of contact between that church and the Baptists. Evans signs the minutes of the General
EVANS, HUGH (1854 - 1934), author and publisher Camau'r Gysegr, 1926, a history of Stanley Road, Bootle, Welsh C.M. chapel; Hogyn y Bwthyn Bach To Gwellt, 1930, a story for children; Cwm Eithin, first published in 1931 (it had reached its 5th ed. by 1949), the story of social conditions which prevailed in a typical Welsh district 150 years ago - it was translated into English by E. Morgan Humphreys, and published under the title of The Gorse Glen
EVANS, JAMES THOMAS (1878 - 1950), principal of the Baptist College, Bangor Osborne Morgan scholarship, and then proceeded to Leipzig to pursue a further course of study. He obtained the M.A. degree of the University of Wales in 1905 and the London degree of B.D. in 1910. In 1906 he was elected to succeed Dr. T. Witton Davies as professor of Hebrew at the Baptist College, and in 1923 followed Silas Morris as principal of the college. He published many articles, a commentary on
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 (1737? - 1784), Methodist exhorter A native of Cil-y-cwm, Carmarthenshire. He travelled considerably in both North and South Wales and in some places suffered persecution. His temperament was genial, but he could thunder forth on occasion. ' John Evan of Killy-comb ' is mentioned in the will of Morgan Rhys, the hymn-writer, 1779. William Williams of Pant-y-celyn wrote a short elegy upon him according to which he was buried at Cil
EVANS, JOHN (1628 - 1700), Puritan schoolmaster and divine of his own wife he married Powell's widow. Under the Declaration of Indulgence he was licensed (May 1672) to preach to the Independent congregation at Wrexham that had first gathered round Morgan Llwyd, now meeting in a barn rented from Edward Kenrick, while the minister lived in the house in which John Jones the regicide had formerly accommodated Llwyd, and still belonging to the regicide's son
EVANS, JOHN JAMES (1894 - 1965), teacher and writer and he was secretary to the Literary Committee at the Fishguard Eisteddfod in 1936. He won his first Eisteddfod prize at Pontypool in 1924 for a Welsh reading-book on animals and birds, illustrated with quotations from Welsh poetry. At the Treorchy Eisteddfod of 1928, he won a prize for an essay on Morgan Rhys and his times which was published by the University of Wales Press in 1935 (Morgan John
EVANS, JOHN YOUNG (1865 - 1941), minister (Presb.), professor at Trefeca College and afterwards at the Theological College, Aberystwyth of alliteration in articles, letters, and even in examination papers. He was one of a small group of Welshmen, including Sir Joseph Bradney who corresponded with one another in Latin. He had many of his poems in Welsh and in Latin printed for distribution among his friends. He married Ellen, daughter of John Morgan, J.P., of Brecon, and they had a son and two daughters.
EVANS, MALDWYN LEWIS (1937 - 2009), champion bowler Mal Evans was born at 62, Rees Street, Gelli in the Rhondda on 8 November 1937, the son of Clifford ('Cliff') Maldwyn Evans (1904-1985) and his wife Haulwen, née Evans, (1905-1993). He rose to fame in June 1972 when he was crowned world singles bowls champion on the outdoor greens at Worthing, Sussex. He came from a bowling family and both his father and uncle, John Morgan Evans (1917-1985), were
EVANS, MARY JANE (Llaethferch; 1888 - 1922), elocutionist grade of A.E.V.C.M. at the Victoria College of Music. For a time, she taught at Tro'rglien School, Cwmtwrch, and attended the Royal Academy of Music in London for two terms in order to perfect her English, but lack of money cut this course short in January 1916. She discovered an interest in drama and formed a drama company at Ynysmeudwy. She performed with Gunstone Jones and Gwernydd Morgan and also

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