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Hugh Evans (basketball Referee)
Hugh Evans may refer to: * Hugh Evans (writer) (1854–1934), Welsh publisher, founder of ''Gwasg y Brython'', author of ''Cwm Eithin'' * Hugh Evans (footballer) (1919–2010), Welsh footballer *Hugh Evans (basketball) (1941–2022), American basketball referee *Hugh Evans (humanitarian) (born 1983), Australian humanitarian, founder of Global Citizen, Global Poverty Project and Oaktree *Hugh Evans (politician), Welsh county councillor and county council leader *Hugh Evans (priest) (died 1587), Dean of St Asaph *Hugh Arfon Evans Hugh Arfon Evans (1913-1995) was a Welsh, Anglican priest. Evans was educated at St David's College, Lampeter and St Michael's College, Llandaff. He was ordained deacon in 1936 and priest in 1937. He was Vicar of Llanfair-is-gaer from 1952 to 1 ... (1913–1995), Welsh Anglican priest *Sir Hugh Evans, a character in '' The Merry Wives of Windsor'' {{hndis, Evans, Hugh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Evans (writer)
Hugh Evans (14 September 1854 - 30 June 1934) was a Welsh publisher and author. He founded the Gwasg y Brython press and was the author of many books and articles about life in rural Wales and Welsh folklore, as well as a series of books for children. Evans was a native of the small village of Llangwm, then in Denbighshire, now in Conwy. He attended elementary school before going to work as a farm labourer in his locality. He moved to Liverpool in 1875 where he founded the Gwasg y Brython Press, which became one of the major Welsh publishers of the day. Evans had wide interests as a writer and archaeologist. He founded the antiquarian magazine ''Y Brython'' in 1906 and in 1911 began to publish an influential critical magazine ''Y Beirniad'', edited by Sir John Morris-Jones Sir John Morris-Jones (17 October 1864 – 16 April 1929) was a Welsh grammarian, academic and Welsh-language poet. Morris-Jones was born John Jones, at Trefor in the parish of Llandrygarn, Anglesey the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Evans (footballer)
Gwilym Hugh Evans (12 December 1919 – 3 February 2010) was a Welsh professional footballer who scored 22 goals in 76 appearances in the Football League playing for Birmingham City, Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic, Walsall and Watford. Evans was born in Ynysybwl, now in Rhondda Cynon Taff, Wales, and brought up in Luton, Bedfordshire, England. He was noticed by Birmingham City while he was serving in the Army, and signed for the club in December 1947. An inside forward, Evans made his debut in the First Division on 22 January 1949, deputising for Jackie Stewart in a goalless draw at Preston North End.Matthews, p. 184. His hard work did not make up for insufficient ability to play at the top level, and he joined Bournemouth & Boscombe Athletic of the Third Division South in 1950. He scored 8 goals in 22 league games for Bournemouth, and a year later moved to Walsall, where his 12 goals in 36 league games made him their joint leading scorer in the 1951–52 season. For the fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Evans (basketball)
Hubert "Hugh" Evans (November 8, 1940 – July 8, 2022) was an American basketball referee in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 28 seasons. He worked 1,969 regular season NBA games and 35 NBA Finals games during his NBA officiating career from 1972 to 2001. He subsequently served as an assistant supervisor of officials in the NBA front office. Early life Evans was born in Squire, West Virginia, in 1940. He studied at North Carolina A&T State University, where he played basketball and baseball for the Aggies. After graduating, he was selected in the 12th round (80th overall) of the 1963 NBA draft by the St. Louis Hawks, becoming the third player from A&T to be drafted by an NBA team after Al Attles and Herbert Gray. However, Evans opted to pursue baseball and played several seasons in the minor leagues for the San Francisco Giants. During the 1963 season, he posted a .288 batting average with 6 home runs and 25 runs batted in (RBI) in 48 games for the Salem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Evans (humanitarian)
Hugh Evans (born 4 March 1983 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian humanitarian. Evans is the co-founder of both The Oaktree Foundation and Global Citizen, formerly called Global Poverty Project, and Executive Producer of One World: Together at Home and Global Citizen Live. He has received domestic and international accolades for his work in promoting youth advocacy and volunteerism in order to reduce extreme poverty in developing countries. Background Evans grew up in Kew, in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne and was educated at Carey Baptist Grammar School where, aged 12 years, he participated in World Vision's 40-hour famine out of a concern for poverty in developing countries. The following year, Evans subsequently won a World Vision-sponsored contest to visit development programs in the Philippines and was moved by his encounters in the slums of Manila. Evans went on exchange to Woodstock School in the Himalayas in India two years later. Recalling his experience f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Evans (politician)
Hugh Evans OBE (born c. 1961) is a farmer and county councillor in Denbighshire, Wales, who was leader of Denbighshire County Council between 2007 and 2022. Background Evans is a dairy farmer from Llanelidan, Denbighshire. He was first elected to Denbighshire County Council as an Independent councillor for the ward of Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd/Gwyddelwern in 2004. He became leader of the council in November 2007 after the previous leader, Rhiannon Hughes, had resigned in October following damning reports into the county's education services. Evans was the only person nominated and was backed by all five political groups on the council. He immediately took on the role of the council's education leader himself and announced he'd be reducing the size of the council's cabinet. He was re-elected as leader following the May 2008 local elections. A Conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Evans (priest)
Hugh Evans was Dean of St Asaph from 26 April 1560 until his death on 17 December 1587. Evans was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford. He was appointed a Prebendary of St Paul's Cathedral in 1558. He also held livings at Cwm, Northop, Cerrigydrudion Cerrigydrudion, sometimes spelt ''Cerrig-y-drudion'', () is a village and community in Conwy, Wales. Until 1974 it was part of the historic county Denbighshire, when it became part of the newly formed county of Clwyd. When the county of Clwyd wa ... and Henllan. References 16th-century Welsh Anglican priests Alumni of Brasenose College, Oxford Deans of St Asaph 1587 deaths {{Christian-clergy-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Arfon Evans
Hugh Arfon Evans (1913-1995) was a Welsh, Anglican priest. Evans was educated at St David's College, Lampeter and St Michael's College, Llandaff. He was ordained deacon in 1936 and priest in 1937. He was Vicar of Llanfair-is-gaer from 1952 to 1973; and Treasurer of Bangor Cathedral from 1966 to 1973. He was Archdeacon of Bangor from 1973 to 1983.'Church news' The Times ''The Times'' is a British daily national newspaper based in London. It began in 1785 under the title ''The Daily Universal Register'', adopting its current name on 1 January 1788. ''The Times'' and its sister paper '' The Sunday Times'' ( ... London, England Monday, Mar. 7, 1983 Issue 61474 p.10 References 1913 births Archdeacons of Bangor 20th-century Welsh Anglican priests Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter 1995 deaths Alumni of St Michael's College, Llandaff {{Wales-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
