William Evans (Wil Ifan)

William Evans (April 22 1883 - July 16 1968), better known by his bardic name of Wil Ifan, was a Welsh poet who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1947 to 1950.

Evans, son of a Baptist minister, was from Carmarthenshire, and was educated at University of Wales, Bangor. Like all Archdruids, he was a winner of a major poetry prize at the National Eisteddfod, winning the Crown at Abergavenny in 1913, at Birkenhead in 1917 (when Hedd Wyn was posthumously awarded the Chair) and at Pwllheli in 1925.

He died in Bridgend and is buried at Rhydymain in Merionethshire.

Works

*"Dros y Nyth" (1915)
*"Dail Iorwg" (1919)
*"Plant y Babell" (1922)
*"O Ddydd i Ddydd" (1927)
*"Y Winllan Las" (1936)
*"Unwaith Eto" (1946)
*"Y Filltir Deg" (1954)
*"Colofnau Wil Ifan" (1962)