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 vations on the due performance of Psalmody. With a short postscript on the Present State of Vocal Music in other Departments,’ 8vo, Bristol, 1823. 2. ‘A Chronological Outline of the History of Bristol, and the Stranger's Guide through its Streets and Neighbourhood,’ 8vo, London, 1824, a storehouse of entertaining facts. At p. 327 of this miscellany will be found a list of Evans's contributions to the ‘Bristol Observer.’ Some anecdotes by Evans of William Combe appear in the ‘Gentleman's Magazine,’ 1823, ii. 185.

[Felix Farley's Bristol Journal, 8 March 1828; Gent. Mag. vol. xcviii. pt. i. pp. 264, 375–6; Chronological Outline of the Hist. of Bristol, pp. 326–8.] 

EVANS, JOHN (d. 1832), miscellaneous writer, a native of Bristol, kept a school in that city for several years, first at Lower Park Row, and afterwards (by October 1815) at Kingsdown. During part of the time he officiated as a presbyterian minister at Marshfield in Gloucestershire. He eventually removed to London, where he had a school in Euston Square. There he died in 1832 (Gent. Mag. vol. cii. pt. i. pp. 372–3, 651; prefaces to his works). Besides some schoolbooks Evans wrote: 1. ‘An Oration on the Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity considered in reference to its Tendency,’ 8vo, 1809. 2. ‘The Ponderer, a series of Essays; Biographical, Literary, Moral, and Critical’ (originally published in the ‘British Mercury’), 12mo, London, Bristol (printed), 1812; another edit., ‘Essays,’ 12mo, London, 1819. 3. ‘The Picture of Bristol; … including Biographical Notices of Eminent Natives,’ 12mo, Bristol, 1814; 2nd edit. 12mo, Bristol, 1818. An abridgment, entitled ‘The New Guide, or Picture of Bristol, with Historical and Biographical Notices,’ was published as a ‘third edition,’ 8vo, Bristol (1825?). The historical account of the church of St. Mary Redcliffe appeared in a separate form, 12mo, Bristol, 1815. Evans also edited, with a memoir, the ‘Remains’ of William Reed of Thornbury, 8vo, London, 1815, and compiled the second volume of ‘The History of Bristol,’ 4to, Bristol, 1816, the first volume of which was written by John Corry [q. v.]

Evans is to be distinguished from (fl. 1812), probably son of Benjamin Evans of Lydney, Gloucestershire, a clergyman of the establishment, who matriculated 4 April 1789, aged 21, at Jesus College, Oxford, and proceeded B.A. 1792 (, Alumni Oxon. ii. 28). He was author of: 1. ‘A Tour through part of North Wales in the year 1798, and at other times; principally undertaken with a view to Botanical Researches in that alpine country; interspersed with Observations on its Scenery, Agriculture, Manufactures, &c.,’ 8vo, London, 1800; 2nd edit. 8vo, London, 1802; 3rd edit. 8vo, London, 1804. 2. ‘Letters written during a Tour through South Wales in the year 1803 and at other times … containing Views of the History, Antiquities, and Customs of that part of the Principality,’ &c., 8vo, London, 1804. 3. ‘Monmouthshire’ in vol. xi. of Brayley and Britton's ‘Beauties of England and Wales,’ 8vo, London, 1810. 4. ‘North Wales,’ 8vo, London, 1812, being vol. xvii. of the same series. At the time of his last publication (April 1812) Evans was residing at Delancy Place, Camden Town, London. He had intended to write the account of South Wales for the ‘Beauties,’ but died shortly after the completion of the first part of his undertaking (, preface to ‘South Wales,’ Beauties of England and Wales, vol. xviii.)

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EVANS, JOHN, (1779–1847), Welsh methodist, was born at Cwmgwen, Pencader, in Carmarthenshire, in October 1779. His parents gave him a religious education, and he could read his bible when he was four. He was sent to the best schools within reach, and under one Jones of Maesnoni he is supposed to have learned Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. As a boy he often preached without hearers. His parents were members, and his father a deacon, of the independent church at Pencader. At the age of fourteen he was taken to hear Jones of Llangan, one of the great methodist preachers of the day. At sixteen, when his father had failed to make an independent of him, he joined the Calvinistic methodists. At nineteen he went to the Presbyterian College, Carmarthen, but soon left, although his tutor thought highly of him. At twenty-nine he received deacon's orders, after examination, at the hands of Watson, bishop of Llandaff. He held several curacies in succession, but for short periods, and wherever he went he filled the churches. Great opposition was raised by some against his ‘methodistic ways.’ His last curacy was at Llanddowror. He could not confine himself to his own church, and often preached off tombstones to crowded assemblies. He soon found, however, that the episcopal church was no proper place for him, and he returned to his old friends the Calvinistic methodists, though he preached also among the baptists or congregationalists, and he was everywhere welcome and everywhere followed by an admiring multitude. Evans had an imposing