EVANS
,
HUGH
(
1790
-
1853
),
veterinary surgeon and musician
;
b. in
1790
, son of
Evan
and
Gwen
Evans
,
Pencraig Fawr
,
Betws Gwerfyl Goch, Mer.
He was a good
musician
and a
skilled player on the ‘cello
; he also was the
precentor
at
Betws Gwerfyl Goch church
. In
1837
was formed ‘
Cymdeithas Gantorawl Cerrig-y-drudion
’ under the auspices of which
Evans
published
Holwyddoreg ar Egwyddorion Peroriaeth
, in two-shilling parts, for use at the quarterly meetings of this music society; this work was the means of disseminating knowledge of music over a large part of the country. He d.
20 Jan. 1853
at
Pen-yr-allt
,
Llangwm, Denbs.
; he was buried in
Betws Gwerfyl Goch
churchyard.
Sources:
-
M. O. Jones
,
Bywgraffiaeth Cerddorion Cymreig
(1890)
;
-
Rhestr gyda nodiadau byrion, o Enwogion
Cymreig o 1700 i 1900
(1908)
;
-
Brown and Stratton
,
British Musical Biography: a dictionary of
musical artists, authors and composers, born in Britain and its colonies
(Birmingham, 1897)
.
Author:
Robert David Griffith, M.A., (1877-1958), Old Colwyn
