Background
Evans was born at Resolven, Glamorgan.
Evans was born at Resolven, Glamorgan.
Cardiff University.
He worked in the coal industry as a teenager, but music was always his primary interest. He went on to become organist and choirmaster of Jewin Calvinistic Methodist Church in London. Most of his compositions were of a religious nature, including many hymns.
He participated actively in the Eisteddfod movement.
Notably, it is in this publication that he combined an old Irish folk song with a versified English translation of an 8th-century Irish poem to produce the now widely known Christian hymn, "Be Thou My Vision". Evans died at Rhosllannerchrugog.