BEVAN
,
LLEWELYN DAVID
(
1842
-
1918
),
Independent minister
;
b. at
Llanelly, Carms.
,
11 Sept. 1842
, son of
Hopkin
Bevan
and
Eliza
(
Davies
)
— the father was a
Bevan
of
Llangyfelach
, related to
Hopkin
Bevan
(q.v.)
, the mother a descendant of
Lewis
Rees
(q.v.)
. He was educated at
University College School
and
New College
,
London
(
B.A.
,
LL.B.
). From
1865 to 1869
he was
assistant
to
Dr.
Thomas
Binney
at the
King's Weigh-house
, and from
1869 to 1876
pastor
of
Whitefield's Tabernacle
,
London
. After a pastorate (
1876-82
) in
New York
, he returned to
minister
(
1882-6
) at
Highbury Quadrant
, but then removed to
Collins Street
,
Melbourne
, spending the rest of his life in
Australia
:
1886-1910
at
Melbourne
, and
1910-18
as
principal
of
Parkin Independent College
,
Adelaide
. He was m. and had five children. D.
9 Aug. 1918
.
His fourth son,
PENRY
BEVAN
(
1876
-
1913
), was
professor of physics
at the
Royal Holloway College
; his career and work are described by
T. Iorwerth
Jones
in
Trans. Cymm.
,
1932-3
, 54-6.
Bibliography:
-
The Life and Reminiscences of Llewelyn David
Bevan
, Melbourne, 1920
, by his widow (Melbourne,
1920
).
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
