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Evans, Leslie Wynne, 1911-1985
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Dr Leslie Wynne Evans (1911-1985) was Reader in the Department of Education, University College, Cardiff, Glamorgan. He researched into industry in South Wales, focusing on metalworking industries in Carmarthenshire, and the history of education in Wales. His PhD, completed in 1953, was concerned with the Works Schools of the industrial revolution in Wales. His research included the work of Sir John Herbert Lewis (1858-1933), Liberal MP, and Sir Alfred T. Davies, (1861-1949), the first Permanent Secretary to the Welsh Department of the Board of Education. Dr Evans contributed to the second volume of A History of Carmarthenshire, edited by J. E. Lloyd, in 1939. He also published Education in Industrial Wales: 1700-1900 (1971), and Studies in Welsh education, 1880-1925 (1974). He became a member of the National Geographic Society in 1955. He was married to Megan Wynne Evans; he died in 1985.
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