EVANS
,
GRUFFYDD
(
1866
-
1930
),
cleric and antiquary
;
b.
18 Sept. 1866
at
Pontardawe
, son of
John
Gruffydd
,
works manager
. After a brief period as
pupil-teacher
at
Clydach
(
Swansea
valley) he went to
Lampeter
, graduating in
1891
(
B.D.
1902
). Ordained
deacon
1892
and
priest
1894
, he held curacies at
Swansea
,
Llansadwrn
, and
Llandingad
(
Llandovery
). He became
vicar
of
Kidwelly
,
1908
, in
1913
vicar
of
Newcastle Emlyn
, and d. there, suddenly, on the afternoon of
Sunday, 31 March 1930
. He was keenly
interested in folk-lore
, and wrote much upon it (and upon other matters) in periodicals. But he will be more worthily remembered for his substantial antiquarian papers in the journals of the
Cymmrodorion Society
: ‘
The Story of the Ancient Churches of Llandovery
’ (
Trans. Cymm.
,
1911-12
), ‘
Carmarthenshire Gleanings — Kidwelly
’ (
Cymm.
, xxv), and ‘
The Story of Newcastle Emlyn and Atpar
’ (
Cymm.
, xxxii).
Sources:
-
Yr Haul
,
1930
;
-
Handbook of Rules of the Calvinistic
Methodist or Presbyterian Church of Wales
(Caernarfon,
1929)
,
1929
.
Author:
Emeritus Professor Robert Thomas Jenkins, C.B.E., D.Litt., Ll.D.,
F.S.A., (1881-1969), Bangor
