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	Gwynfor Evans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gwynfor Evans was born to an English-speaking family in Barry, near Cardiff, and did not learn to speak Welsh until adulthood.
		On 14 July 1966, Evans won the parliamentary seat of Carmarthen from Labour in a by-election caused by the death of Lady Megan Lloyd George, daughter of the former Liberal Prime Minister, David Lloyd George.
		In the House of Commons, Evans was true to his pacifist principles in being one of the few MPs to oppose the British government's support of the Nigerian federal government with supplies of weapons in the civil war against Biafra (1967-1970).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gwynfor_Evans (915 words)

	Gwynfor Evans - Wicipedia
		Gwynfor Evans (1 Medi, 1912 - 21 Ebrill, 2005), oedd aelod seneddol cyntaf Plaid Cymru.
		Teimlai Gwynfor na allai barhau i ennill cyflog dda fel cyfreithiwr tra roedd ei gyfoesywr yn ymladd yn y rhyfel.
		Er na lwyddodd i rwystro cynlluniau Bessie Bradock a'i chriw, roedd ei amlygrwydd yn gymorth iddo gael ei ddewis yn Aelod Seneddol cyntaf Plaid Cymru pan enillodd sedd Caerfyrddin mewn is-etholiad yn 1966 er mawr syndod i lawer.
	cy.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gwynfor_Evans (756 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Gwynfor Evans
		Gwynfor Evans, the former President of Plaid Cymru, who died yesterday aged 92, was the first member of his party to be elected to Parliament and possibly the only person to have persuaded Mrs Thatcher to execute a policy U-turn.
		Evans viewed the whole of Welsh history since the 16th century in terms of a deliberate and sustained English policy of wiping out the Welsh language and culture, and saw the government's decision as part of this historic vendetta.
		Gwynfor Evans, the son of a shopkeeper, was born at Barry, Glamorgan, on September 12 1912.
	www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/04/22/db2201.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/04/22/ixportal.html (1368 words)

	Review: “For The Sake Of Wales: The Memoirs of Gwynfor Evans” (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gwynfor Evans remembers his acts and those of fellow patriots of his generation in attempting to use and assert Welsh in courts and other forums.
		It was then that Gwynfor Evans, determining that a decisive yet non-violent act of civil disobedience was necessary to force the English government to keep its word, announced he would go on a "fast to the death." This was no stunt; he was as serious as was Gandhi.
		Gwynfor Evans writes that Wales is a nation of the saint, Dewi Sant, and the warrior, Owain Glyndwr.
	www.welshamerican.com /REVgwynfor.htm (1514 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Obituary: Gwynfor Evans
		In his long career, Gwynfor (in a land with a severe shortage of surnames, he was invariably known as Gwynfor) was essentially driven by cultural nationalism, at the heart of which was the Welsh language.
		Gwynfor's election as the first Plaid Cymru MP gave his party unaccustomed credibility and an enhanced public profile; it also established a pattern under which, when a Labour government was in office, Plaid provided the most threatening opposition in Wales.
		Gwynfor had won a rare victory, something that pleased him all the more because it gave the Marxists in his party a lesson in the importance of the individual.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1465990,00.html (1031 words)

	Ymgyrchu! - The Ballot Box - By-elections - 1966
		Gwynfor Evans once again stood for the seat as the Plaid Cymru candidate even though, three months earlier, he was beaten by both the Labour and the Liberal candidate, only receiving 16.1% of the vote.
		Gwynfor Evans was the first Plaid Cymru Member of Parliament, and he represented Carmarthen until he lost his seat in 1970.
		Gwynfor Evans's success in Carmarthen gave Plaid Cymru the boost the party needed which led to a period of increased support in Wales.
	www.llgc.org.uk /ymgyrchu/Pleidleisio/Is/1966/index-e.htm (207 words)

	Gwynfor Evans -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gwynfor Evans was born to an (additional info and facts about English-speaking) English-speaking family in (additional info and facts about Barry) Barry, near (The capital and largest city of Wales) Cardiff, and did not learn to speak (A Celtic language of Wales) Welsh until adulthood.
		In the (additional info and facts about 1970 General Election) 1970 General Election Evans lost his Carmarthen seat to Labour's Gwynoro Jones, and failed to regain it in the February 1974 General Election by only three votes.
		"Gwynfor Evans made a distinguished contribution to Welsh public life and will be remembered particularly for his advancement of the Welsh language." — (additional info and facts about Peter Hain) Peter Hain, (additional info and facts about Secretary of State for Wales) Secretary of State for Wales (Labour).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gw/gwynfor_evans.htm (702 words)

	ipedia.com: Gwynfor Evans Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gwynfor Evans was the first Member of Parliament to represent Plaid Cymru.
		Evans, then leader of the party, won the parliamentary seat of Carmarthen from Labour in a by-election on July 14, 1966, lost...
		In 1982, his threat to go on hunger strike to ensure that the Conservative government did not renege on its promise of a Welsh language television channel brought about an early U-turn on the part of Margaret Thatcher, and S4C began broadcasting at the end of that year.
	www.ipedia.com /gwynfor_evans.html (175 words)

	Gwynfor Evans - gwynfor.net
		Mae Gwynfor Evans yn perthyn i griw dethol o bobl a heriodd Margaret Thatcher ac ennill yn ei herbyn.
		Sefydlodd gangen Plaid Cymru, a oedd yn blaid ymylol ar y pryd, a oedd yn cael ei chysylltu'n bennaf ag ymgyrchoedd uniongyrchol a argymhellwyd gan yr awdur a'r ysgolhaig Saunders Lewis.
		Roedd Gwynfor yn heddychwr a wrthododd wasanaethu'n yr Ail Ryfel Byd.
	www.gwynfor.net (401 words)

	The Scotsman - Obituaries - Richard Gwynfor Evans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		GWYNFOR Evans won a sensational victory in July 1996 to become Plaid Cymru’s first MP in a by-election in Carmarthenshire.
		He advised Evans to avoid Welsh Labour members; Hughes backed his courtesy by standing the following year along with Ross-shire Liberal MP Alasdair Mackenzie as one of Winnie Ewing’s sponsors on her entry into the House of Commons.
		Evans was a gentle gentleman, a charismatic pacifist who was the unlikeliest of people to enter the thrust-and-parry of politics.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /obituaries.cfm?id=451802005 (674 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Politics \| Special Reports \| First Plaid MP Evans dies at 92
		Mr Evans hit the headlines when he won the Carmarthen byelection of 1966, and in the early 1980s when he threatened to go on hunger strike during the campaign to form Welsh language television channel S4C.
		His grandson, Mabon ap Gwynfor, is standing for the party in the Brecon and Radnorshire seat in the forthcoming general election.
		Mr Evans was born in Barry, south Wales, in 1912, and was educated at Aberystwyth University and St John's College, Oxford.
	politics.guardian.co.uk /wales/story/0,9061,1465706,00.html (599 words)

	www.gwales.com - 1860570216, For the Sake of Wales - The Memoirs of Gwynfor Evans
		One of Gwynfor Evans’s fellow students at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, in the 1930s commented later that he believed that, of his contemporaries, Gwynfor was the person least likely to have become President of Plaid Cymru.
		And yet, when Gwynfor Evans became president of the party in 1945, he was so in tune with the movement that he would remain at the helm for almost forty years.
		Gwynfor Evans has played a pivotal role in that development since the Second World War, emphasising non-violent ballot-box campaigning and becoming Plaid Cymru’s first MP at the Carmarthen by-election of 1966.
	www.gwales.com /goto/review/en/1860570216 (453 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Wales \| Gwynfor Evans at 90
		Mr Evans will spend his birthday at his home in Pencarreg in west Wales with his wife Rhiannon - but as a lifelong teetotaller, will not be toasting the occasion with champagne.
		On Friday, a portrait of Mr Evans bought by friends and supporters of Mr Evans was presented to the National Library of Wales to mark his birthday.
		During the 1970s, Mr Evans had been very active in the campaign to establish a Welsh channel and the latest act was an act that inspired many to protest.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/2227826.stm (778 words)

	The Church in Wales (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Most Rev Dr Barry Morgan, Archbishop of Wales, expressed his sadness upon hearing news of the death of Gwynfor Evans earlier today and paid tribute to his very significant contribution to the spiritual, religious and political life of Wales during the twentieth century.
		Gwynfor Evans did as much as anyone to shape the political, religious and civil life of Wales during the twentieth century.
		As the title of one his books suggests, Gwynfor Evans never stopped “ Fighting for Wales ”, but his fight was always gentlemanly and courteous, but determined - traits which are not always evident in today's political landscape.
	www.churchinwales.org.uk /press/0278e.html (197 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Wales \| Plaid pioneer Gwynfor Evans dies
		An adult learner of Welsh, Mr Evans was a teenager when Plaid Cymru was established in 1925, but he emerged as the party's president 20 years later - a position he held for 36 years.
		Gwynfor Evans was born in Barry, south Wales, in 1912, but spent most of his life in Llangadog, Carmarthenshire.
		S4C's Chair Elan Closs Stephens said: "Gwynfor Evans realised the power of television to influence and change culture and language and he was determined that Welsh would have a proper place in the medium.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/2002565.stm (833 words)

	A Tribute to Gwynfor Evans \| Seefour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		We have readers throughout the world, and some of our most active editors and contributors are from the Celtic fringes of the UK (Wales and the ‘English’ south-west spring to mind), myself among them, but our readers are generally English people in their 40s/50s or teens/20s.
		She couldn’t lose the Welsh Tory seats: if nothing else, a national and nationalist party like the Tories, holding almost no seats in Wales or Scotland, would be a parody of a political party and would soon pass away.
		Gwynfor Evans achieved a lot in his long lifetime.
	www.transdiffusion.org /emc/seefour/evans.php (1057 words)

	Rambles: Gwynfor Evans, The Fight for Welsh Freedom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Gwynfor Evans, former leader of Plaid Cymru (the Welsh Nationalist Party) set out to rectify this situation in the 1970s with a detailed look at Welsh history as told by the Welsh.
		Evans reminds us that, but for a series of missed opportunities, Wales could have gained full nationhood within Europe, like many similarly sized nations.
		Evans reserves particular scorn for Welsh historical figures who put the interests of England or Britain first, to the detriment of Wales.
	www.rambles.net /evans_fight00.html (681 words)

	BBC - South East Wales - Hall of Fame - Gwynfor Evans - former leader of Plaid Cymru
		Gwynfor was the best type of Nationalist, a man who realised that loving your country did not mean that you had to hate others as a matter of course.
		Gwynfor Evans has always been an inspiration to me from his byelection victory in Carmarthen in 1966.
		Gwynfor Evans was an inspiration to all Celtic Nationalists including those in Cornwall.
	tickers.bbc.co.uk /wales/southeast/halloffame/public_life/gwynfor_evans.shtml (1169 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Wales \| Plaid protester's S4C lament
		Gwynfor Evans, the former Plaid Cymru president who made his threat to fast in April 1980, has admitted his disappointment at the decline in popularity of the Welsh fourth channel.
		As S4C prepared to celebrate its 20th birthday on Friday, the 90-year-old blamed a wider decline in Welsh speakers for the slump - and the fact that new viewers were not replacing those dying off.
		Mr Evans - who only learned Welsh at the age of 18 - pledged to start his life-threatening protest when Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government went back on its word and refused to establish a Welsh TV channel.
	news2.thdo.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/wales/2384025.stm (671 words)

	icWales - Allies and ex-rivals join in tributes to Gwynfor Evans
		Born in Barry in 1912, Mr Evans was a teenager when Plaid Cymru was established in 1925 but was elected president aged just 20.
		Educated at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and St John's College Oxford, Mr Evans was a committed Christian and pacifist who refused to fight during World War II and tried to lead a peace mission to Vietnam.
		In the 1950s, Mr Evans fought to establish a parliament for Wales but was ridiculed by many for an idea ahead of its time.
	icwales.icnetwork.co.uk /0100news/newspolitics/tm_objectid=15430483&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=allies-and-ex-rivals-join-in-tributes-to-gwynfor-evans-name_page.html (958 words)

	BBC - Wales On Air - Gwynfor Evans and S4C
		Evans, an elder statesman of Plaid Cymru, was president of the party from 1945 to 1981.
		In 1966 he became the first member to be elected to Parliament.
		When the Thatcher government made a u-turn on its promise of a Welsh television channel for Wales, Gwynfor Evans decided on drastic action: a hunger strike.
	www.bbc.co.uk /wales/walesonair/database/gwynfor_en.shtml (128 words)

	TRIBUTE TO GWYNFOR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Plaid Cymru is saddened by the news that Gwynfor Evans has passed away.
		It is impossible to overestimate Gwynfor's unique contribution to building Plaid Cymru into the party it is today.
		Wales would not be the nation it is today - perhaps would not be counted as a nation at all - if not for Gwynfor Evans.
	www.plaidcymru-abertawe.com /page7.html (178 words)

	Hunger strike - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When they had recovered, the suffragettes were taken back to prison to finish their sentences.
		In 1980, the Welsh nationalist politician Gwynfor Evans threatened to go on hunger strike in order to hold the newly-elected Conservative government to its election promise to set up a Welsh-language TV channel.
		The government capitulated and the channel was on air by the end of the year.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hunger_strike (1605 words)

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