Evans was born at Plas Du in the parish of Llanarmon, Carnarvonshire, and educated at Jesus College, Oxford.

The company in a letter to Madras (18 February 1690–1) call him "the quondam minister, but late great merchant", and a year later (22 January 1691–2) speak of discontinuing his salary.

Governor Thomas Pitt, one of his old interloping friends, jokes upon this appointment in a letter to Sir E. Littleton (Madras, 8 November 1702).

In 1712 Evans joined the Duke of Marlborough in signing a protest against the peace, which was ordered to be expunged from the journals by the majority.

Evans died at Dublin on 22 March 1724,[2] and was buried in the churchyard of St. George's Chapel, under a monument upon which his widow commemorated his many virtues and his twenty years' chaplaincy in India.