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.

[1] Early in 1828 he left Bristol for the purpose of entering into some engagement with a printer named J.D.

Evans was killed by the sudden falling in of the theatre on the morning of 28 February 1828, when in his fifty-fifth year.

[1] Evans was author of Practical Observations on the due performance of Psalmody.

Some anecdotes by Evans of William Combe appear in the Gentleman's Magazine, 1823, ii.