EVANS
,
WILLIAM
(
1779
-
1854
),
Wesleyan minister
;
b.
25 Oct. 1779
at
Caernarvon
. His father died before he was born and the cost of his education at
Beaumaris
was borne by his mother's family — she came from
Pant Hywel
,
Llandegfan
. After having been a
barber
at
Amlwch
and
Caernarvon
, he became a
minister
in
1806
. His circuits were as follows:
Cardiff
(
1806
),
Llangollen
(
1807
),
Llanrwst
(
1809
),
Pwllheli
(
1810
),
Holywell
(
1812
),
Beaumaris
(
1814
),
Ruthin
(
1816
),
Llanfyllin
(
1818
),
Machynlleth
(
1821
),
Llanfaircaereinion
(
1824
),
Pwllheli
(
1826
),
Dolgelly
1828
,
Caernarvon
(
1831
— the year of the
‘Little Wesley’ trouble
[see
A. H.
Williams
,
Welsh Wesleyan Methodism
, chapter vii]),
Llandysul
(
1832
),
Crickhowell
(
1835
),
Swansea
(
1837
),
Merthyr
(
1840
), and
Machynlleth
(
1843
). He retired in
1844
and settled at
Machynlleth
, were he d.
30 July 1854
. He was the
secretary of his province
,
1812-24
and
1827-32
, and
editor
of the
Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd
,
1824-5
. He wrote
Hanes Bywyd a Marwolaeth y Parch E. Jones, Bathafarn
,
1850
, and some ‘controversial’ books —
Ymddiffynydd y Gwis
,
1822
;
Traethawd yn erbyn yr Athrawiaeth o Barhad Diamoddol Mewn Gras
,
1839
;
Amddiffyniad i Ddysgyblaeth y Methodistiaid Wesleyaidd
,
1850
, and others,
Adam
Evans
,
printer
and
publisher
at
Machynlleth
, was his son.
Bibliography:
-
Yr Eurgrawn Wesleyaidd
, Dolgellau
,
1856
,
passim
;
-
Hanes Wesleyaeth Gymreig
, 1911–3
, ii, 766-71;
-
J. Jones
,
Y Bywgraffydd Wesleyaidd yn cynwys
bras-hanes am un a thriugain o weinidogion Wesleyaidd
Cymreig yn nghyda 35 o weinidogion a gwyr lleyg
Saesonig
, Machynlleth, 1866
, 89-91.
Author:
Rev. Griffith Thomas Roberts, M.A., (1887-1977), Tregarth, Bangor /
Talsarnau
