EVANS, WILLIAM (1838 - 1921), Calvinistic Methodist minister and author

Born at Betw, near Tonyrefail, Glamorganshire, 1 August 1838, son of David Evans, Cardiff, and grandson of William Evans (1795 - 1891), Tonyrefail. He was educated at the Normal College, Swansea, and Glasgow University [ B.A. 1860, M.A. 1861 ]. Afterwards he took a course of theology at Cheshunt College. He was ordained in 1863 when he was called to the pastorate of the English Calvinistic Methodist church at Runcorn, but after two years he moved to S. Andrew's, Pembroke Dock In October 1866 he married Caroline Davies, Pembroke Dock, a member of the well-known Dawkins clan. In 1875 he accepted a call to the English church, Bath Street, Aberystwyth, where he ministered for six years. He was then recalled to Pembroke Dock, where he remained until he retired from the pastorate in 1905. He was moderator of the South Wales Association, 1897-8, and of the General Assembly, 1908. He died at Pembroke Dock 11 February 1921. He wrote Cofiant William Evans, Tonyrefail (Newport, 1892); An Outline of the History of Welsh Theology (London, 1900); The History of the South Pembrokeshire Calvinistic Methodist Churches (Wrexham, 1913), with O. S. Symond; Souvenir of the Dawkins Family, Pembroke, 1916; Memoir of the Rev. William Powell, Pembroke (Cardiff, 1918).

Author

• Katharine Monica Davies

Sources

• Y Goleuad, 1921
• Who's who in Wales, 1920

Additional Links

• Wikidata: Q20734612

Published date: 1959

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