Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans

Sir Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans (17 December 1894 – 15 February 1964) was a Welsh senior civil servant and labour expert.

Early life Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans was the son of the Rev. Thomas Towy Evans, and his wife Mary (née James). He attended Cwmtillery Elementary School, Abertillery County School, Llandovery College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he received a first class honours degree in mathematics.

Family In 1919 he married Elizabeth, daughter of Owen Watkins, Sarn, Caernarfonshire. They had two sons. Myrddin-Evans was a member of the Council of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland from 1943 and served as secretary of the Baptist Chapel in Bloomsbury, London. In 1938, he was appointed head of the International Labour Division of the Ministry of Labour.

In 1941 he was appointed as head of the Production Executive Secretariat in the Cabinet Office and in 1942 served as a labour consultant to the governments of Canada and the United States.

Publications

Myrddin-Evans was the co-author of The Employment Exchange Service of Great Britain (1934).