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Edward Evans (Newfoundland Politician)
Edward Evans or Ted Evans may refer to: * Edward Evans (divine) (1573–?), English divine * Edward Evans (poet) (1716–1798), Welsh poet * Edward Evans (printseller) (1789–1835), printseller and compositor in London * Edward Payson Evans (1831–1917), American scholar and linguist * Edward B. Evans (1846–1922), British philatelist and army officer * Ted Evans (footballer) (1868–1942), English footballer * Edward J. Evans (1871–1928), American labor unionist * Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans (1880–1957), British naval officer and Antarctic explorer * Edward Evans (politician) (1883–1960), British Labour Party politician * Edward Lewis Evans (bishop) (1904–1996), Bishop of Barbados * Edward Gurney Evans (1907–1987), politician in Manitoba, Canada * Edward Evans (actor) (1914–2001), British actor * Ted Evans (politician) (1939–1981), Australian politician * Ted Evans (public servant) (1941–2020), Australian public servant and businessman * Edward P. Evans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Evans (divine)
Edward Evans (born 1573), was an England, English Anglicanism#Anglican divines, divine. Evans, son of a clergyman, was born at West Meon, Hampshire, in 1573, and educated at Winchester, whence he matriculated at New College, Oxford, 10 October 1593, and took the two degrees in arts, B.A. 27 November 1598, M.A. 21 January 1602. He had been admitted fellow of his college in 1595, but resigned in 1604. On 23 December 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 November 1604, where he remained until 1610. Evans, who was 'a noted preacher of his time in the university,’ published 'Verba Dierum; or, the Dayes Report of God's glory. … Foure Sermons [on Ps. xix. 2],’ 4to, Oxford, 1615. In that year he does not appear to have been beneficed. Wood has wrongly ascribed the authorship of these sermons to another Edward Evans, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Evans (poet)
Edward Evans (1716 – 21 June 1798) was a Welsh poet. Evans was a "bard according to the rites and ceremonies of the bards of Britain", and his pedigree is traced in one unbroken line to the ancient Druids. He was pastor at the Old Meeting House, Aberdare, from 1772 to 1798, and is said to have 'devoted his time faithfully to his religious duties, to the satisfaction of a large number of people, who attended from the country from a distance of many miles.' He published a Welsh translation of S. Bourne's ''Catechism'' (1757), ''Book of Ecclesiastes done into Verse'', by E. E. and Lewis Hopkin (Bristol, 1767), ''An Address delivered before the Association of Ministers at Dref Wen, near Newcastle Emlyn, with two Hymns'' (1775); and his poetical works were collected and edited by his son, Rees Evans (1778–1869), in Merthyr in 1804. Evans died on 21 June 1798, the day on which he had arranged to meet the other bards of the Chair of Glamorgan , HQ = Cardiff , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Evans (printseller)
Edward Evans (1789–1835) was a printseller and a compositor in the printing office of Nichols & Son, in Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London, and was afterward advanced to the post of reader. He later opened his own print shop and gradually accumulated an extensive stock. He is known for his ''Catalogue of a Collection of Engraved Portraits, Comprising Nearly 20,000 Portraits of Persons Connected with this Country,'' undated and published at Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields Lincoln's Inn Fields is the largest public square in London. It was laid out in the 1630s under the initiative of the speculative builder and contractor William Newton, "the first in a long series of entrepreneurs who took a hand in develo ..., where he died 24 Nov. 1835, aged 46. His widow, Anne E. Evans, and son, Edward David (1818–1860, brought out a second volume in 1853 at No. 403 Strand, whither the business was moved in that year. The two volumes profess to describe about fifty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Payson Evans
Edward Payson Evans (December 8, 1831 – March 6, 1917) was an American scholar, linguist and early advocate for animal rights. He is best known for his 1906 book on animal trials, ''The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals.'' Biography Evans was born in Remsen, New York in 1831. His father was a Welsh Presbyterian clergyman. Evans earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan in 1854. He then taught at an academy in Hernando, Mississippi, for one year, before becoming a professor at Carroll University (then Carroll College) in Waukesha, Wisconsin. From 1858 to 1862, he traveled abroad, studying at the universities of Göttingen, Berlin and Munich. On his return to the United States, he became professor of modern languages at the University of Michigan. In 1868, he married Elizabeth Edson Gibson. In 1870, Evans resigned his position at Michigan and went abroad again, where he gathered materials for a history of German literature, and also made ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward B
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy and Ned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Evans (footballer)
John Edward Evans (April 1868 – 1942), also known as "Jammer", was an English footballer who played in the Football League for Bury, Burslem Port Vale and Stoke. Career Evans played for Newcastle Swifts before joining local league club Stoke in 1891. He had a decent debut season with Stoke scoring six goals during the 1891–92 season. Evans became the first Stoke player to be sent off, after receiving his marching orders in an away match at Everton on 12 November 1892. He recovered well from this set back and went on to score 10 league goals during the 1892–93 season, helping Stoke to achieve their highest league position to that point of 7th. He spent two more seasons at the Victoria Ground, but failed to hold down a place in the starting eleven. He left in 1895 for Bury, and then moved on to Burslem Port Vale, most likely in the autumn of 1896. He was a regular in the first team, helping the side win the Staffordshire Senior Cup in 1898. However he lost his pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward J
Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Saxon England, but the rule of the Norman and Plantagenet dynasties had effectively ended its use amongst the upper classes. The popularity of the name was revived when Henry III named his firstborn son, the future Edward I, as part of his efforts to promote a cult around Edward the Confessor, for whom Henry had a deep admiration. Variant forms The name has been adopted in the Iberian peninsula since the 15th century, due to Edward, King of Portugal, whose mother was English. The Spanish/Portuguese forms of the name are Eduardo and Duarte. Other variant forms include French Édouard, Italian Edoardo and Odoardo, German, Dutch, Czech and Romanian Eduard and Scandinavian Edvard. Short forms include Ed, Eddy, Eddie, Ted, Teddy and Ned ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans
Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, (28 October 1880 – 20 August 1957) was a Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer.H. G. Thursfield, 'Evans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell, first Baron Mountevans (1880–1957)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2011. Evans was seconded from the Navy to the ''Discovery'' expedition to Antarctica in 1901–1904, when he served on the crew of the relief ship, and afterwards began planning his own Antarctic expedition. However, he suspended this plan when offered the post of second-in-command on Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated ''Terra Nova'' expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913, as captain of the expedition ship . He accompanied Scott to within 150 miles of the Pole, but was sent back in command of the last supporting party. On the return he became seriously ill with scurvy and only narrowly survived. After the expedition he toured the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Evans (politician)
Edward Evans CBE (11 January 1883 – 30 March 1960) was a teacher and Labour Party politician in the United Kingdom. Noted for his work for and with deaf people and the blind, he entered the House of Commons in his sixties, and sat from 1945 to 1959. Early life Evans was born in Manchester to Welsh parents. He was educated at Llanelli Science Schools and at St Paul's College in Cheltenham, before training as a teacher at the University of London. He taught first at an elementary school in London, then successively at Linden Lodge Special School for the Blind, the Old Kent Road School for the Deaf and the East Anglian Schools for Blind and Deaf in Gorleston, Norfolk. He held special diplomas in the teaching of blind and of deaf people, and retired as the headmaster of Gorleston in 1943, having been a teacher for 40 years, and served for the next two years as Secretary of the National Institute for the Blind. A sometime member of Great Yarmouth Borough Council and its educatio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Evans (bishop)
The Rt Rev Edward Lewis Evans (1904–1996) was Bishop of Barbados from 1960 until 1971. He was born in 1904 and educated at Tonbridge School. He was ordained in 1938 and began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Mary's, Prittlewell followed by the post of Warden of St Peter's Theological College, Jamaica. He was successively Rector of Kingston Parish Church, Archdeacon of Surrey and then Bishop Suffragan of Kingston before his translation to Barbados. A noted author,Amongst others he wrote "A History of the Diocese of Jamaica" (1977) and "Legends of West Indian Saints" (1984) > British Library web site accessed 19:48 GMT Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, counted from midnight. At different times in the past, it has been calculated in different ways, including being calculated from noon; as a cons ... Thursday 6 May 2010 he died on 30 December 1996. Notes and references 1904 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gurney Evans
Edward Gurney Vaux Evans (September 3, 1907 – January 8, 1987) was a politician in Manitoba, Canada. He was a Progressive Conservative member of the Legislative Assembly of Manitoba from 1953 to 1969, and served as a cabinet minister in the governments of Dufferin Roblin and Walter Weir. His uncle, Harry Evans, was an Edmonton mayor. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the son of William Sanford Evans, a Winnipeg mayor and Conservative MLA and party leader, and Irene Gurney, Evans was educated at Ridley College and the University of Manitoba, receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree. He became a publisher at his father's firm of Sanford Evans & Co. Ltd., and was assistant director of Ordnance Services in the Canadian Army from 1942 to 1946, reaching the rank of lieutenant colonel. He received the Order of the British Empire, and was a member of the Canadian Empire Club. Evans served as executive director for the Carswell-Shaw Commission which assessed Manitoba flood damage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Evans (actor)
Albert Edward Walker Evans (4 June 1914 – 20 December 2001) was an English film and television actor. During the Second World War, he served with the British Army in North Africa and Italy, attaining the rank of Captain. Evans featured as Bob Grove in the 1950s soap opera ''The Grove Family'' and played the role of Lionel Petty in ''Coronation Street'' during 1965–66. He also appeared in episodes of ''Dixon of Dock Green'', ''The Saint'', ''Doctor Who'', ''Z-Cars'' and ''Dad's Army''. Selected filmography * ''London Belongs to Me'' (1948) - Detective Sergeant Taylor * ''The Small Voice'' (1948) - Police Inspector * ''The Case of Charles Peace'' (1949) - Police Sergeant (uncredited) * ''Mr. Denning Drives North'' (1952) - Second Patrolman * '' Secret People'' (1952) - Plain Clothes Man * '' 13 East Street'' (1952) - Van Driver (uncredited) * ''I Believe in You'' (1952) - Clerk of the Court (uncredited) * '' Hindle Wakes'' (1952) - Chauffeur * ''Cosh Boy'' (1953) - Sgt. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
