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Lewis Evans (rugby Player)
Lewis Evans may refer to: * Lewis Evans (controversialist) (fl. 1574), Welsh controversialist * Lewis Evans (surveyor) (c. 1700–1756), Welsh colonial surveyor and geographer * Lewis Evans (mathematician) (1755–1827), Welsh mathematician * Lewis Evans (collector) (1853–1930), British businessman and scientific instrument collector * Lewis Pugh Evans (1881–1962), British Brigadier General and World War I Victoria Cross recipient * 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 f ... (1904–1996), Anglican bishop of Barbados * Lewis Evans (rugby player) (born 1987), Welsh rugby union player * Lewis Evans (musician), UK musician * Louis E. Atkinson (1841–1910), American physician, attorney and Republican politician * Stuart Lewis-Evans (1930 – 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Evans (controversialist)
Lewis Evans ( fl. 1574), was a Welsh controversialist, or polemicist, who was educated at Oxford and initially supportive of the Roman Catholic cause in England during the Reformation. He fled to Antwerp, where he translated a work from Latin. After being imprisoned in London upon his return, he reconciled to the established Church of England. He published books in 1568 and 1570 that virulently attacked the Roman Catholic Church. Life and career Evans, a native of Monmouthshire, was educated at Oxford, apparently at Christ Church, where he proceeded B.A. 1554, M.A. 1557, and B.D. 1562. He afterwards moved to London, where his zeal in the Roman Catholic cause brought him into conflict with Bishop Grindal. He was forced to flee the country. Settling at Antwerp, he worked to translate the ''Tabulæ vigentium … hæreseon'' of Willem van der Lindt, Bishop of Roermond, into English. This he published at Antwerp in 1565 with the title ''The Betraying of the Beastliness of the Here ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Evans (surveyor)
Lewis Evans (c. 170012 June 1756) was a Welsh surveyor and geographer. He had a brother John. In the mid-1730s he emigrated to British America, where he was based in Philadelphia. He was well known for his 1755 map of the Middle British Colonies. Biography Lewis Evans was born in Caernarfonshire, Wales. He travelled to the British colonies in North America, where he settled in Philadelphia by the mid-1730s. In 1736 he bought a book from Benjamin Franklin, a printer, which was the start of their friendship. Franklin encouraged his geographic and scientific research. In 1743 Evans married Martha Hoskins, a friend of Franklin's wife Deborah Read Franklin. They had a daughter Amelia before Martha died in 1754, when the girl was ten. As a surveyor, Evans traveled in the Onondaga country of the Iroquois in western New York province with Conrad Weiser, an important interpreter who had lived as a youth with the Mohawk, and botanist John Bartram. From this trip, he published a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Evans (mathematician)
Lewis Evans (1755 – 19 November 1827) was a Welsh mathematician. Life Evans, son of the Rev. Thomas Evans of Bassaleg, Newport, Monmouthshire, was born in 1755. He was matriculated at Merton College, Oxford, 16 December 1774, but left the university without a degree. In 1777 he was ordained by the Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, his first curacy being that of Ashbury, Berkshire, where he served until 6 July 1778. He then commenced residence as curate of Compton, Berkshire, and continued there until 1788, in which year he received institution to the vicarage of Froxfield, Wiltshire, where he held the living until his death. In 1799 he was appointed first mathematical master at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in which post he laboured until 1820. In addition to a competent knowledge of various sciences, he had turned much of his attention, in the latter part of his life, to astronomy. He possessed several valuable instruments, among which was one of Troughton's best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Evans (collector)
Lewis Evans (1853–1930) was an English businessman and scientific instrument collector. His collection was the nucleus of the History of Science Museum, Oxford. He was the son of Sir John Evans, an archaeologist, and younger brother of the more famous archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans (1851–1941) who excavated the archaeological site Knossos in the island of Crete, Greece. He studied chemistry at University College London and became a businessman. During his career, he rose to the chairman role in the family paper-making firm John Dickinson & Co. Ltd and lived at Russels, a country house near the company's paper mill, close to Watford. Over the course of approximately fifty years, Evans also built up an important collection of scientific instruments. In 1924, he presented this collection of sundials, astrolabes, early mathematical instruments and associated library of early books to the University of Oxford. The Lewis Evans Collection was made accessible to the public in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Pugh Evans
Brigadier Lewis Pugh Evans, (3 January 1881 – 30 November 1962) was a British Army officer and a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces. Early years and family Lewis Pugh Evans was born at Abermad Llanfarian to Sir Gruffydd Humphrey Pugh Evans (1840–1902), Advocate-General of Bengal and a member of the Viceroy's Council, and Lady Emilia Savi Pugh Evans (née Hills; 1849–1938). Lewis Pugh Evans was educated at Eton and entered the army after training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. Lewis Pugh Evans married Margaret Dorothea Seagrave Vaughan-Pryse-Rice on 10 October 1918. They lived at Lovesgrove on the death of his elder brother in 1945. Military career Following a year at Sandhurst, Evans entered the British Army with a commission in the Black Watch as second lieutenant on 23 December 1899, and served with the 2nd battalion in the Second Boer War in Sout ... [...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 The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and is one of the largest libraries in the world. It is estimated to contain between 170 and 200 million items from many countries. As a legal deposit library, the Briti ... web site accessed 19:48 GMT Thursday 6 May 2010 he died on 30 December 1996. Notes and references 1904 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Evans (rugby Player)
Lewis Evans may refer to: * Lewis Evans (controversialist) (fl. 1574), Welsh controversialist * Lewis Evans (surveyor) (c. 1700–1756), Welsh colonial surveyor and geographer * Lewis Evans (mathematician) (1755–1827), Welsh mathematician * Lewis Evans (collector) (1853–1930), British businessman and scientific instrument collector * Lewis Pugh Evans (1881–1962), British Brigadier General and World War I Victoria Cross recipient * 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 f ... (1904–1996), Anglican bishop of Barbados * Lewis Evans (rugby player) (born 1987), Welsh rugby union player * Lewis Evans (musician), UK musician * Louis E. Atkinson (1841–1910), American physician, attorney and Republican politician * Stuart Lewis-Evans (1930 – 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Evans (musician)
Black Country, New Road (commonly abbreviated to BCNR or BC,NR) are an English rock band formed in Cambridgeshire in 2018, consisting of Tyler Hyde (vocals, bass), Lewis Evans (vocals, flute, saxophone), May Kershaw (vocals, keys), Georgia Ellery (vocals, violin), Charlie Wayne (vocals, drums) and Luke Mark (guitar). The band's first two albums featured guitarist and lead vocalist Isaac Wood, who left the band in 2022. The band gained initial attention through debut singles "Athens, France" and " Sunglasses" in 2019, which combined features of experimental rock, post-punk and post-rock, drawing comparisons to bands such as Slint and contemporaries Black Midi. Their debut album '' For the First Time'', released in 2021, received widespread critical acclaim, was nominated for the Mercury Prize and reached No. 4 on the UK Albums Chart. Four days before the release of their 2022 second album ''Ants from Up There'', Wood left the band, citing mental health struggles. The album receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis E
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