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EVANS, DAVID (1740 - 1790) Dolau, Baptist minister was the first to go to North Wales with the mission sent by his denomination in 1776, and was the first to baptize by immersion in Anglesey. He died at the age of 50 on 14 October 1790. His son was David Evans (1773-1828)
EVANS, DAVID ALLAN PRICE (1927 - 2019), pharmacogeneticist David Price Evans was born on 6 March 1927 in Birkenhead, Liverpool, the only son of Owen Evans,, a postmaster, and his wife Ellen (née Jones) from Anglesey. Before he started school the family had moved to Llangefni, and they moved again to Flint where he completed his primary education and attended Holywell Grammar School. He went on to Liverpool University in 1945, and graduated in
EVANS, DAVID THOMAS GRUFFYDD (Baron Evans of Claughton), (1928 - 1992), solicitor and politician Born at Birkenhead on 9 February 1928, the son of John Cynlais Evans and Nellie Euronwy Griffiths. His grandfather, David Evans (who was the donor of the so-called 'black chair' won by Hedd Wyn at the Birkenhead national eisteddfod in 1917), left Anglesey in 1884 for Birkenhead where he established a thriving business as a builder; he built a large area of Claughton as well as the Welsh
EVANS, EVAN (Ieuan Fardd, Ieuan Brydydd Hir; 1731 - 1788), scholar, poet, and cleric subscriptions to be raised in North Wales for his support. In 1787, when he perceived that his health was failing and that he could no longer engage in serious study, he sold his manuscripts to Paul Panton. They were sent to Plas-gwyn, Anglesey, at the end of December 1787, and later extensive [and unacknowledged, as far as Ieuan was concerned] use was made of them by the editors of The Myvyrian Archaiology
EVANS, GRIFFITH IFOR (1889 - 1966), surgeon and pioneer of the Christian Faith Healing Movement in Wales . In 1931, as the result of publishing his book Essays on familial syphilis, he was awarded the gold medal of the Hunterian Society. He was appointed surgeon to the Caernarfon and Anglesey Infirmary at Bangor, but decided to retire from the post within a few years. His attempt to return to the staff as physician was not successful. During this period Evans was active in many spheres outside his
EVANS, HUGH (Hywel Eryri; 1767 - 1841?), poet Born in the parish of Llanfair-mathafarn-eithaf, Anglesey. A weaver by trade, he lived in Aber-erch, Chwilog, Plas Madog in the parish of Clynnog, and Pen-y-groes, Caernarfonshire. He wrote a cywydd on the subject of 'Cariad' for a Bangor eisteddfod held c. 1790 and another in 1802 on 'Drylliad y llong Minerva, Ionawr 21, 1802.' Much of his work appeared in the North Wales Chronicle and in Welsh
EVANS, JOHN (1702 - 1782), cleric and anti-Methodist the Crown living of Eglwys Cymyn (variously spelt), but resided only for a few weeks each summer - Peter Williams (1723 - 1796) was one of his curates, but was dismissed for Methodism. Evans lived in London, in Cowley Street, Westminster, where Richard Morris of Anglesey was his neighbour and friend. He was a protégé of bishop Edmund Gibson's, and about 1742 became 'Reading Chaplain' of the Chapel
EVANS, MARY (Whitemantle, y Fantell Wen; 1735 - 1789), mystic She is generally believed to have reached Merioneth from Anglesey c. 1780 - some have it that she came as a maidservant to Maentwrog rectory, others that she lived at Breichiau, on the Maentwrog border of Llandecwyn parish; there are suggestions that she hailed from Cardiganshire. She had left her husband (probably before leaving Anglesey), and cohabited with another man. But she asserted that
EVANS, MORRIS EDDIE (1890 - 1984), composer been arranged for male voices and other combinations, and its fame has spread outside Wales; it has been published in English collections and in a translation to Fijian. A manuscript collection of Eddie Evans's hymn-tunes, which also contains some compositions for organ and other minor works, is housed in the National Library of Wales (NLW 22360D). He married Louise Pierce from Anglesey in 1921, and
EVANS, OWEN (1829 - 1920), Congregational minister and author to preach at Llanfyllin; be ministered at Berea (Anglesey), 1853-4, Maentwrog, 1854-6, Fetter Lane, London, 1856-63, Brymbo and Wrexham, 1863-7, Llanbryn-mair, 1867-81, and Fetter Lane (for the second time) together with King's Cross, 1881-1901. He retired from the ministry and lived in Liverpool, 1901-18, and London, 1918-20. In 1920 he received a Civil List annuity. He was chairman of the Welsh
EVANS, ROBERT TROGWY (1824 - 1901), Congregational minister and author Born in the parish of Trefeglwys, Anglesey. He was licensed to preach in 1849, spent some time at the Bala (Congregational) College under Michael Jones (1787 - 1853), and took charge of a Welsh Congregational church at Manchester, being ordained there on 12 September 1853. At the end of four years he moved to Greenfield, Flintshire, where he ministered until he emigrated, in 1870, to the United
EVANS, WILLIAM, Presbyterian minister, and lexicographer pretty definite proof; it is possible that Evans was already a man of mature age and previous good education before he entered the Academy. A copy of this dictionary was among the books bequeathed by Richard Morris to the Welsh Charity-school (Additional Letters of the Morrises of Anglesey (1735-86), p. 808), but Morris himself nowhere speaks of the book. William Richards (1749 - 1818) used Evans's

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