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EVANS, JOHN (c. 1680 - 1730), Presbyterian minister and theologian The son of John Evans (1628 - 1700) by Katherine, widow of Vavasor Powell and daughter of colonel Gilbert Gerard, governor of Chester castle for Charles I. He was born at Wrexham, educated at Dissenting academies at Newington Green (c. 1694) and Rathmell, Yorkshire, and studied the early Fathers under James Owen of Oswestry. He became chaplain to Mrs. Rowland Hunt of Boreatton, Salop, and shortly
EVANS, JOHN (1723 - 1817), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter Born at Glan'rafon, Wrexham, 30 October 1723; his parents removed in 1727 to Adwy'r Clawdd - it was John Evans who gave the land on which Adwy chapel, the first Methodist chapel in North Wales, was built, 1750-3. For a while he was a weaver, then a miner in the Minera lead-mines, but in 1742 he went to Bala and resumed the craft of weaving; later he was a book-binder, and later on in life (in the
EVANS, JOHN (1702 - 1782), cleric and anti-Methodist the Crown living of Eglwys Cymyn (variously spelt), but resided only for a few weeks each summer - Peter Williams (1723 - 1796) was one of his curates, but was dismissed for Methodism. Evans lived in London, in Cowley Street, Westminster, where Richard Morris of Anglesey was his neighbour and friend. He was a protégé of bishop Edmund Gibson's, and about 1742 became 'Reading Chaplain' of the Chapel
EVANS, JOHN (1770 - 1799), traveller and Spanish colonial agent Born at Waunfawr, Caernarfonshire (christened 14 April 1770), son of Thomas Evans, a Methodist exhorter, and Anne, daughter of Evan Dafydd, also a Methodist exhorter. In 1792 he agreed to accompany Edward Williams (Iolo Morganwg) on a journey to visit the so-called 'Welsh Indians' who were reputed to be inhabiting the upper reaches of the Missouri. On Iolo's withdrawal from the enterprise, Evans
EVANS, JOHN (1756 - 1846), surgeon Born 4 July 1756 at Llwyn-y-groes, Llanymynech, son of John Evans (1723 - 1795), also of Llwyn-y-groes. He was educated at Westminster School, Oxford [matriculated from Jesus 1773, B.A. from S. Alban Hall 1778, M.A. 1779, B.D. 1783 ], and Edinburgh, where he graduated M.D. He settled at Shrewsbury, and, after his father's death, at Llwyn-y-groes. He married Jane Wilson of Cheshire, by whom he had
EVANS, JOHN (1768 - c. 1812), topographical writer probably the son of Benjamin Evans, clergyman, of Lydney, Gloucestershire. (He is sometimes confused with John Evans, a Bristol schoolmaster who wrote topographical works relating to Bristol and philosophical treatises.) Evans matriculated at Jesus College, Oxford, 1789 (B.A. 1792). Little is known about him beyond his writings - four works descriptive of and based on tours in Wales. They were (a
EVANS, JOHN (1767 - 1827), Baptist minister and head of a school at Islington Born at Usk, 2 October 1767. He was descended from the Evans family of Pentre, Radnorshire, 1712 - 1781). John Evans was educated at Bristol, where he began to preach in 1784, and at Aberdeen; he became M.A. of Edinburgh University in 1790 and was ordained at Worship Street, London, in 1792. In 1796 he opened a school in Islington for young preachers and others, which earned him renown. In 1815
EVANS, JOHN (bu farw 1779), Evangelical cleric, translator, and commentator Born at Meini Gwynion, Llanbadarn Odwyn (now Llangeitho), Cardiganshire. He is said to have been educated at Oxford, and to have graduated [but he cannot be identified in Foster's Alumni, and there has been considerable confusion between him and John Evans, 1702 - 1782 ]. His first curacy was at Llanarth, Cardiganshire; then he became curate at Plymouth, to be known henceforth as 'the parson of
EVANS, JOHN (1723 - 1795), cartographer Ordnance Survey; it was dedicated to Sir Watkin Williams Wynn and engraved by Robert Baugh of Llandysilio. Evans prepared an edition on a reduced scale (about three miles to the inch) also engraved by Baugh, but it was not published until 1797, two years after his death. The maps were, for the time, of unusually high merit on account of their pleasing appearance and the amount and accuracy of the details
EVANS, JOHN (1770 - 1851), land surveyor, schoolmaster, and musician
EVANS, JOHN (1830 - 1917), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and biographer Born 20 November 1830, son of David (who died when the son was two years old) and Sarah Evans, Penlôn, Llanbadarn-trefeglwys, Cardiganshire. Brought up though he was in poverty, his love of reading made up for his scant education, and his devotion to Sunday school work led to his being pressed to start preaching (1853). After four years at Trevecka (1856-60), he was in 1861 called to the
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