EVANS, HENRY TOBIT (1844-1908), schoolmaster, journalist, and author;
b. at Fron-felen-ganol, Penbryn, Cards. Educated at the Bangor Normal College, he was headmaster of Llechryd British school for seven years. He became a journalist and politician, and acted as local correspondent to the London Kelt. He learned to print from a press which he set up at his home (Neuadd Llanarth, Cards.), and ran his own weekly newspaper — Y Brython Cymreig, 1892-1902. He was editor of the Carmarthen Journal from June 1898 at latest, to 1904. He was honorary secretary of the Cardiganshire Liberal Unionist Association, and a visiting magistrate for Carmarthen gaol. He was referee for the orthography of the Ordnance Survey maps of Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, and Cardiganshire. He wrote Y Berw Gwyddelig, 1889, but is better known for Rebecca and her Daughters, 1910 [which utilized the collections of Alcwyn C. Evans, q.v.]. He was a Quaker. He d. at Trewylan, Cards., 9 May 1908, at the age of 64.
Bibliography:
- The Welsh Gazette, 14 May 1908;
- Carm. Jnl., 15 May 1908.
Author:
Rev. Thomas Tegryn Davies, ( -1974), Aberporth
