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Thomas John Evans was born in the parish of Cellan, Cardiganshire, on 2 December 1863, the son of Evan and Jane Evans. He taught for a brief period at Cellan school before departing for London to work as a clerk in 1882. For the next fifty years he was closely associated with the Welsh life of the metropolis, and proved an assiduous patron of a great range of literary societies associated with the Welsh churches in London, and played a prominent role in the establishment of a number of social clubs and societies for London Welshmen. In 1895 T. J. Evans was the founder of The London Kelt, a bilingual weekly newspaper, and he was mainly responsible for editing it until it was forced to cease publication in 1915 by the acute paper shortage of the First World War. He became the friend and close associate of an array of prominent Welshmen of his generation, among them Thomas Edward Ellis, David Lloyd George, Ellis Jones Ellis-Griffith and W. Llewelyn Williams. He accumulated an impressive library of Welsh books and books relating to Wales, and became a highly respected authority on London Welsh societies and settlements. He also served on the Council of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. Evans formed a large number of intimate and enduring friendships, and became renowned for his untiring readiness to assist young Welsh people at London. He had married in 1891, Margaret, the daughter of Lewis Davies of Lampeter and they had two daughters. T. J. Evans died on 13 May 1932.

Benjamin Flower (1755-1829) was a writer and printer who travelled widely in Europe and spent six months in France in 1791. He was appointed editor of the influential provincial newspaper The Cambridge Intelligencer, which had liberal views. In 1799, he was summoned before the House of Lords for libelling Bishop Watson of Llandaff, whose political conduct he had censured. He was imprisoned in Newgate. He married Eliza Gould (d.1810) in 1800, and they had two daughters, Eliza (1803-1846) and Sarah (1805-1848). Later, he became a printer in Harlow.

Sir Evan Paul Silk was born in 1952 and attended Christ College, Brecon; Brasenose College, Oxford; Princeton University and the Open University. (BA 2021)
He was a Clerk in the House of Commons from 1975-1977 and 1979-2001. From 2001 to 2007, he was Clerk to the National Assembly for Wales before returning to the House of Commons as Director of Strategic Projects from 2007 to 2011. He then chaired the Commission on Devolution in Wales from 2011 to 2014. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Bath in January 2015 for services to the Parliaments of, and devolution within, the UK. He has worked as Presidential Adviser in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and has written and lectured extensively on Parliament and the constitution. He is an honorary Professor at the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University, an honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University and a Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. He is a former President of the Study of Parliament Group.