John Evans (Methodist)

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.

At the age of fourteen he was taken to hear Jones of Llangan, one of the great Methodist preachers of the day.

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 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.