Evan Herber Evans

Background

He was born on the 5th of July 1836, at Pant yr Onen near Newcastle Emlyn, Cardiganshire.

Education

He decided to enter the ministry, and studied arts and theology respectively at the Normal College, Swansea, and the Memorial College, Brecon.

Career

His convictions was deepened by the religious revival of 1858-1859.

In 1862 he succeeded Thomas Jones as minister of the Congregational church at Morriston near Swansea. In 1865 he became pastor of Salem church, Carnarvon, a charge which he occupied for nearly thirty years despite many invitations to English pastorates. ' In 1894 he became principal of the Congregational college at Bangor. He died on the 30th of December 1896. He was chairman of the Welsh Congregational Unionin 1886 and of the Congregational Union of England and Wales in 1892; and by his earnest ministry, his eloquence and his literary work, especially in the denominational paper Y Dysgedydd, he achieved a position of great influence in his country.

Achievements

• It is as a preacher that Evan Herber Evans was chiefly celebrated. He was probably unequalled for natural eloquence among the pulpit orators of Wales during the last half-century.