Robert Pritchard Evans Papers

This material is held atArchifdy Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University Archives

Scope and Content

An M.A. thesis entitled English Ballads. Their Origin and Literature. A photograph of 2nd Lieutenant Robert Pritchard Evans along with a series of englynion by R. Williams Parry in his memory.

Administrative / Biographical History

Robert Pritchard Evans, born 1884, of Melin Llecheiddior, Garn Dolbenmaen, Caernarfonshire was a student at the University College of North Wales from 1904 to 1907 and graduated in English in that year. For a period, he taught at the school in Trefor and later served as a 2nd Lieutenant during the Great War. He was killed in France in April 1917.

Robert Pritchard Evans was a close friend of the poet, R. Williams Parry, who wrote a series of englynion in his memory.

Arrangement

Items incorporated into the General Collection of Bangor Manuscripts

Access Information

Open to all users.

Note

Description compiled by Elen Wyn Hughes, June 2002.

Other Finding Aids

Item level typescript catalogues are available at the Archives Department of the University of Wales Bangor. Reference numbers : General Collection of Bangor Manuscripts 20588, 32685

Conditions Governing Use

Usual copyright conditions apply. Reprographics are made at the discretion of the Archivist.

Bibliography

Parry, R. Williams, Cerddi'r Gaeaf, 1952.