Evans, Fred
Variant namesAlfred T. Evans (or more commonly known as Fred Evans) was born in 1914. He was the son of a miner. Fred Evans was educated at both primary and grammar schools at Bargoed, Glamorganshire and went on to study at the University College of Wales Cardiff. He married Mary Katharine O'Marah in 1939 and they had a son and two daughters.
Fred Evans was head of the English Department at Bargoed Grammar School 1937-1949, Headmasther of Bedlinog Secondary School, Glamorganshire1949-1966 and Headmaster of Lewis Boys Grammar School, Pengam, Monmouthshire 1966-1968.
He was Agent to the Rt. Hon. Ness Edwards, MP for Caerphilly, and a Councillor on Gelligaer Urban District Council 1948-1951. Fred Evans contested unsuccessfully for the Labour Party the Leominster division of Herefordshire in 1955 and the Stroud division of Gloucestershire in 1959. He sat as MP (Labour) for the Caerphilly division of Glamorganshire from 1968 until 1979 when he retired. He died in 1987.
From the guide to the Fred Evans, 1963 - 1979, (Swansea University)
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| referencedIn | Guide to the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection, 1920-2001 | Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives | |
| referencedIn | Century Company records | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division | |
| referencedIn | Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 1793 - 1999. Record Of Applications Under The Act Of 1896. 1896 - 1897. 1896 Citizenship Application for Fred Evans | National Archives at Fort Worth | |
| referencedIn | Brighton Aquarium records, 1873-1894. | Harvard Theater Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University | |
| creatorOf | Fred Evans, 1963 - 1979 | Swansea University. |
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| correspondedWith | Brighton (England). Aquarium. | corporateBody |
| correspondedWith | Century Company | corporateBody |
| associatedWith | Communist Party of the United States of America. | corporateBody |
| correspondedWith | Dellenbaugh, Frederick Samuel, 1853-1935 | person |
| associatedWith | Evans Alfred Thomas 1914-1987 | person |
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| Great Britain Politics and government |
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| Local government Wales, South |
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