Dik Evans Dik Evans Richard G. "Dik" (also "Dick") Evans (born 1957) is an English-born Irish musician best known as a founder of the band Virgin Prunes and an early member of U2. Dik and his brother, David "The Edge" Evans, U2's guitarist, were among the group's co-founders. Evans was born in England to Welsh parents. At a young age, the family moved to Ireland. He is the older brother of David "The Edge" Evans, guitarist for rock band U2. He first began to learn how to play guitar with an acoustic guitar bought by his brother, which the two shared. The
David Morier Evans David Morier Evans David Morier Evans (1819–1874), was a Welsh financial journalist. Evans, the son of Joshua Lloyd Evans of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire, was born in 1819. He formed an early connection with journalism, and became assistant city correspondent on the ‘Times,’ a post which he occupied several years, and left to assume the direction of the money articles in the ‘Morning Herald’ and ‘Standard.’ He left the ‘Standard’ at the end of 1872, and in the following March started a paper called the ‘Hour,’ on which he spent his entire means, being adjudicated a bankrupt 19 December 1873. His health