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 cessful. During six months, in 1828–9, he added no fewer than 650 to the membership of his churches. He died at Mynyddbach 3 March 1835. His published works are (all Welsh): 1. ‘On the Salvation of Children.’ 2. ‘Reasons for Dissent.’ 3. ‘Memoir of Rev. Lewis Rees’ (father of Dr. Abraham Rees, the encyclopædist). 4. ‘Memoir of Rev. J. Davies, Alltwen.’ 5. ‘Memoir of Rev. W. Evans, Cwmllynfell.’ 6. ‘Memoir of Rev. J. Davies, Llansamlet.’ 7. A Hymn-book. 8. ‘The Golden Cistern.’ 9. ‘The Basket (Cawell) of Unleavened Bread.’ 10. ‘Ten Sermons’ (posthumous).

[J. T. Jones's Geiriadur Bywgraffyddol, i. 265–269.] 

EVANS, DANIEL (1792–1846), Welsh poet, commonly called, that is Black Daniel of Cardiganshire, was born in 1792 at Maes y Mynach in the parish of Llanvihangel-ystrad in that county. His father, David Evans, was a well-to-do farmer, and he was the second of three sons. He was educated at Lampeter grammar school under Eliezer Williams, and subsequently went to Jesus College, Oxford, where in 1814 he proceeded B.A. with a third class in classics (Honours Register of Oxford, p. 199). He was elected to a fellowship, in his college, took holy orders, and proceeded M.A. 1817, and B.D. 1824. Though retaining his fellowship, he resided mostly in Wales, where he won prizes at Eisteddfodau, and became famous as a poet. His disorderly and irregular life was brought to a tragical end by his suicide on 28 March 1846. He was buried in the churchyard of Pencarreg in Carmarthenshire, the parish whence his family had come, and where many of his relatives were buried. Daniel Du's first published Welsh poem was a short pamphlet of twenty pages, printed in 1826 at Aberystwith, and called ‘Golwg ar gyflwr yr Iuddewon.’ He next issued in 1828 ‘Cerdd arwraidd ar y gauaf,’ in his friend Archdeacon Beynon's ‘Cerddi arwraidd ar yr hydref a'r gauaf.’ In 1831 his collected works were published at Llandovery with the title ‘Gwinllan y Bardd; sef prydyddwaith ar amrywiol destunau a gwahanol fesurau.’ A second edition was published at Lampeter in 1872, with considerable additions, mainly collected from unpublished sources. The simple and unaffected style and the homely intelligibility of Daniel Du's poems have given him a wide popularity in Wales, especially in his native county. The few English poems in the collection are of very inferior merit.

[Williams's Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Welshmen, p. 149; G. Jones's Enwogion Sir Aberteifi, p. 39; Brit. Mus. Cat.; Foster's Alumni Oxon.] 

EVANS, DAVID MORIER (1819–1874), financial journalist, the son of Joshua Lloyd Evans of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, was born in 1819. He formed an early connection with journalism, and became assistant city correspondent on the ‘Times,’ a post which he occupied several years, and left to assume the direction of the money articles in the ‘Morning Herald’ and ‘Standard.’ He left the ‘Standard’ at the end of 1872, and in the following March started a paper called the ‘Hour,’ on which he spent his entire means, being adjudicated a bankrupt 19 Dec. 1873. His health broke down under the strain of his financial difficulties, and he died on the morning of 1 Jan. 1874, aged 54. He was buried in Abney Park cemetery, Stamford Hill, the funeral being attended by a large number of brother journalists among whom he was popular. In addition to his regular work Evans was connected with several other commercial and financial periodicals, among them being the ‘Bankers' Magazine,’ to which he was one of the principal contributors, the ‘Bullionist,’ and the ‘Stock Exchange Gazette.’ He also conducted the literary and statistical departments of the ‘Bankers' Almanac and Diary.’ He published several books, all bearing on or arising out of city affairs, chief among which were: 1. ‘The Commercial Crisis, 1847–8.’ 2. ‘History of the Commercial Crisis, 1857–8, and the Stock Exchange Panic, 1859.’ 3. ‘Facts, Failures, and Frauds: Revelations, Financial, Mercantile, and Criminal,’ 1859. 4. ‘Speculative Notes and Notes on Speculation Ideal and Real,’ 1864. 5. ‘City Men and City Manners.’ He was married, and left issue.

[Men of the Time, 8th ed. p. 345; Times, 2 Jan. 1874; Standard, 6 Jan. 1874; Brit. Mus. Lib. Cat.] 

EVANS, EDWARD (fl. 1615), divine, son of a clergyman, was born at West Meon, Hampshire, in 1573, and educated at Winchester, whence he matriculated at New College, Oxford, 10 Oct. 1593, and took the two degrees in arts, B.A. 27 Nov. 1598, M.A. 21 Jan. 1602. He had been admitted fellow of his college in 1595, but resigned in 1604. On 23 Dec. 1601 he was instituted by the college to the vicarage of Heckfield, Hampshire, which he resigned in January 1601–2. Two years later the college presented him to the vicarage of Chesterton, Oxfordshire, 15 Nov. 1604, where he remained until 1610. Evans, who was ‘a noted preacher of his time