EVANS, HUGH (Hywel Eryri ; 1767-1841?), poet;
b. 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, Caerns. 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, Ion. 21, 1802.’ Much of his work appeared in the North Wales Chronicleand in Welsh periodicals: three or four ballads by him were printed separately. He d. at Pen-y-groes some time after May 1840.
Bibliography:
- J. H. Davies (ed.), Bibliog. Welsh Ballads, 103, 118;
- Robert Evans (Cybi), Ardal y Cewri;
- Y Traethodydd, 1851, 388;
- Gen., 1905, 215;
- W. R. Ambrose, Hanes Nantlle, 42;
- Blodau Arfon;
- Y Brython, 1860 (134, 165), 1861 (153);
- manuscripts in the writer's possession.
Author:
Robert (Bob) Owen, O.B.E., M.A., (1885-1962), Croesor
