[1] Evans was born in Wales in 1739, and began his working life in London as a bookseller's porter with a William Johnston of Ludgate Street.
He went on to become the publisher of the Morning Chronicle and the London Packet as well as taking over the bookselling business of Messrs. Hawes, Clarke, & Collins, based at no.
Holding Evans responsible for the article, Goldsmith attacked him in the Paternoster Row shop.
The latter married in 1790, but deserted his family and went to America, later returning to die in poverty eighteen months before his father.
Evans died on 2 July 1803 at his lodgings in Chapter House Court, at the age of sixty-four, after a short illness.