E. His son, John Henry Silvan Evans, joined him in his labours. According to Thomas Parry (History of Welsh Literature to 1900), Silvan Evans coined the word "telyneg" to render the English "lyric", hence the title of an early work, Telynegion (1846), which apparently contained translations from Anacreon, Sappho, Ovid, French sonnets, and the work of English poets, especially Lord Byron. Parry judges Silvan Evans to have been overmuch influenced by William Owen Pughe's Dictionary in his use of vocabulary. However, R. E. Hughes in the Dictionary of Welsh Biography (1959) claims that Evans "gradually became emancipated" from Pughe's work. References Thomas Parry, Hanes Llenyddiaeth Gymraeg hyd 1900, University of Wales Press, 1945, 1946, 1953, reprinted 1964 J. E. Lloyd, 'Evans, Daniel Silvan (1818–1903)', rev. Beti Jones, first published 2004 British lexicographers Welsh scholars and academics Alumni of the University of Wales, Lampeter Academics of Aberystwyth University Fellows of Jesus College, Oxford 1818 births 1903 deaths 19th-century lexicographers