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George Eyre Evans (1857-1939) was an antiquarian and historian of Welsh Unitarianism. The son of the Rev. David Lewis Evans (1813-1902), minister of the Church of the Saviour at Whitchurch, Shropshire, he was born at Colyton, Devon. He became minister of the Church of the Saviour, Whitchurch and also worked hard for the Unitarian Chapel in Aberystwyth. For eighteen years he carried out research for the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments in Wales and Monmouthshire, and was also secretary for the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society for thirty three years. He published a number of books in English and also a private magazine, Antiquarian Notes, from 1898 until 1905.