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CHANCELLOR SILVAN EVANS.

IN the Cardiff Weekly Mail of 18 April there are two obituary notices of this excellent Welsh scholar one in English, reprinted, I believe, from the daily issue of the Mail; the other in Welsh by Idriswyn." I do not know who the latter writer is, but am under the impression that he is a Dissenting minister. The English notice bears internal evidence of being the work of Mr. Eilir Evans, a zealous Churchman and Conservative, and a wellknown Cardiff journalist. Mr. Evans, an old Lampeterian, who had been personally interviewing Silvan Evans about a year ago, writes thus respecting the distinguished lexicographer's connexion with Lampeter :"The Rev. Chancellor Evans was an old Lampeter man, where he graduated B.D. in 1868......and acted in the capacity of examiner at St. David's College, Lampeter, from 1875 to 1890. He was made Canon of Bangor in 1888, and subsequently was appointed to the chancellorship of the cathedral, which he held for eight years. For an equal period he had been previously Professor of Welsh at the University College of Wales."

This notice runs to a column and a half (full newspaper size); and that is all a leading Church pressman and Lampeterian has to say about Silvan Evans's connexion with his old college. I may observe that the dates of Evans's Lampeter examinership given in the

above quotation do not tally with the dates in the current edition of the college calendar, which on p. 60 gives 1874-81, but on the next page very has 1875-79. noticed that the eight years of his professorIt will be ship at Aberystwith (1875-83) are not specified, nor placed in their natural position. On looking at the curious discrepancies of dates, one is half inclined to suspect that some of them are intentional, made with the view of parrying the awkward accusation that Lampeter was shamed into paying its old alumnus examiner by the action of its vigorous young the compliment of appointing him Welsh rival at Aberystwith. I am not at present able either to confirm or dissipate this suspicion, but I know that the Lampeter authorities have always been somewhat prone to mystification. Turning now to "Idriswyn's" account, we find indeed more information, but even less accuracy. The writer is very well informed on Welsh matters, and an enthusiastic advocate for the preservation and extension of the Welsh language. This, then, is what " Idriswyn"

says:

"From his leaving [the Dissenting academy of] Neuaddlwyd to his entrance at Lampeter Silvan Evans's biographers are wholly silent, but, if I am not mistaken, he began preaching with the Independents, if indeed he did not take charge of one or certain, in 1846, when he was twenty-eight years more [Dissenting] churches. At any rate, this is old, we find Evans a student at Lampeter with the object of taking Church orders. He was one of the earliest students (myfyrwyr cyntaf) of that college, and one of the most promising that ever were he was Welsh lecturer to the college, completing under instruction. In the last year of his course his other studies at the same time......He won a high position at Lampeter, passed in the first division, and won a scholarship (in another obituary the scholarship is said to be the "senior" one]. He took his B.D. in 1868, and served as Welsh examiner to his old college from 1874 to 1880. Silvan Evans's career and his subsequent scholarly works were the means of bringing Lampeter College to the nation's notice, and he set a permanent mark of renown on the institution-he was a living witness to the nature and effectiveness of the education imparted there."

Such is "Idriswyn's" glowing Silvan Evans's Lampeter career, due partly, picture of no doubt, to the kindly Welsh fashion of covering lack of exact information with a profusion of pleasant adjectives, but mainly to that Lampeterian mystification to which I have already referred. I do not yield to either Mr. Eilir Evans or "Idriswyn" in sincere respect for, and admiration of, the deceased scholar, but I do not believe that fiction can furnish a satisfactory wreath for his grave.

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