Career
Evans, a native of Bristol, was baptised at Saint Philip"s Church, Bristol, 16 January 1774. In 1811 he was based in Long Lane, London where he printed The Black Prince an account of the life of John Naimbanna. At various periods of his life he was concerned in printing and editing more than one newspaper in Bristol, including the Bristol Observer, a weekly journal, which, started in January 1819, and which collapsed in October 1823, after 322 numbers had been published.
Early in 1828 he left Bristol for the purpose of entering into some engagement with a printer named Juris Doctor Maurice, of Fenchurch Street, London, who was also principal proprietor of the newly erected Brunswick Theatre in Well Street, Wellclose Square.
Evans was killed by the sudden falling in of the theatre on the morning of 28 February 1828, when in his fifty-fifth year.
