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Caleb Evans (1737 - 1791)

Rev. Dr. Caleb Evans
Born in Bristol, Somerset, Englandmap
Husband of — married 19 Apr 1762 in Pershore, Worcestershire, Englandmap
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Died at about age 53 in Bristol, Englandmap
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Biography

Caleb Evans was born on 12 Nov 1737 in Bristol, Somerset, England, son of Hugh Evans (~1700 - ) and Sarah (Booth) Evans (~1710 - ). His father was a baptist minister.
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Caleb Evans was born in Somerset, England.
Caleb was a nonconformist minister
Caleb was a tutor at Bristol Dissenting Academy

His father was Hugh (1712-1781), a Particular Baptist minister and principal of the Bristol Baptist Academy. His mother was Sarah Browne (d. 1751), daughter of Joseph Browne of Bristol.

He trained for the ministry at

  • Plaisterer's Hall Academy (1752-1754) and was funded by the Particular Baptist Fund at £10 p.a.
  • Mile End Academy (1754-1757)
  • David Jennings's Academy, Wellclose Square (1757-1758)

He worked as a Tutor at Bristol Baptist and minister at Broadmead; assistant and successor to his father, Hugh Evans, both as minister and tutor

He worked as

  • Assistant Tutor at Bristol Baptist Academy from c.1758 to c.1767
  • Tutor at Bristol Baptist Academy from c.1767 to c.1781
  • Prinicpal Tutor Bristol Baptist Academy from c.1781 to c.1791 until he died.

His Denomination was Particular Baptist

He was a member of

  • Baptist Missionary Society,
  • Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor, *Bristol Education Society.[1]

Caleb married Sarah Jeffries (~1740 - ) on 19 Apr 1762 in Pershore, Worcestershire, England.[2] Their children were:

  1. Elizabeth Evans (1770 - )
  2. Benjamin Jeffries Evans (1771 - ).

Caleb was listed as a supporter of the Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among the poor in the 1763 report which the charity published. The report recorded him as Rev Caleb Evans and that he had been a supporter since 1760. He was also listed on page 17 in the 1779 report as Mr Caleb Evans of Bristol [3]

In 1775 he published a letter to John Wesley concerning the right of the British Government to tax the American colonies [4]

He died in 1791, at Bristol, Somerset, England. [5] and was buried on 13 August 1791 in Broadmead, Bristol, England.[6]

The newspaper annoucement stated Tuesday afternoon died at Downend, in the 54th year of his age, the Rev. Caleb Evans, D. D. many years President of the Baptist Academy, and Pastor of the Congregation of Protestant Dissenters in Broadmead Bristol.— How pleasingly those qualities, which recommend and endear the husband, the parent, the Christian, the tutor, and the Minister, were combined in him, those alone can tell who had the happiness of being connected with him in those capacities. He Possessed an enlarged and liberal, a benevolent and pious mind ; and while those individuals and communities with whom he was more particularly connected, venerate his memory, and mourn for his death, the sympathy of society, wherever he was known, will be excited, and his remove will be considered as a public loss. [7]

Caleb was included in the Dissenting Academy at Homerton list, published in 1812, of the Ministers who had been educated there, and was shown as Rev. Dr. Caleb Evans, under the patronage of own Foundation, settled at Bristol.

See also

Caleb Evans (1737-1791) was baptized at Little Wild Street in London in 1758. He assisted Josiah Thompson at Unicorn Yard, Southwark, for a year, studying under John Conder at the Mile End Academy. He returned to Broadmead in Bristol in 1759, first as assistant then later as co-pastor to his father, Hugh Evans. After his father’s death, Caleb Evans served as senior pastor at Broadmead from 1781 to 1791. He became involved with the work of the Academy as well, helping to found the Bristol Education Society in 1770. In 1779 he was named Principal of the Academy, a post he held until his death. Evans read widely in the Puritans and the classics and was an evangelical Calvinist (like his friend Robert Hall, Sr.), passing that tradition on to the young preachers he trained at Bristol. He also had a keen interest in itinerant preaching and evangelism. His writings include numerous sermons, as well as some controversial political tracts, such as A Letter to Mr Wesley (1776), concerning the American war; also a Collection of Hymns Adapted to Public Worship (1769), with John Ash. His first wife was Sarah Jeffries of Taunton (d. 1771); his second wife was Sarah Hazle (d. 1817) of Bristol. See Norman S. Moon, “Caleb Evans, Founder of the Bristol Education Society,” Baptist Quarterly 24 (1971-1972), 175-190; idem, Education for Ministry, 10-26; Kirk Wellum, “Caleb Evans (1737-1791),” ed. Haykin, in The British Particular Baptists, 1:213-233; Hayden, Continuity and Change, 123-141; DEB.[8]

Sources

  1. https://dissacad.english.qmul.ac.uk/sample1.php?parameter=personretrieve&alpha=1398
  2. Marriage: "England Marriages, 1538–1973"
    FamilySearch Record: NJ3X-LJX (accessed 28 April 2022)
    Caleb Evans marriage to Sarah Jeffries on 19 Apr 1762 in Worcestershire, England.
  3. Society for Promoting Religious Knowledge among the Poor
  4. Shrewsbury Chronicle - Saturday 11 November 1775 Accessed from the British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000401/17751111/005/0004 accessed by Trevor Pickup on 28th April 2022]]
  5. https://dissacad.english.qmul.ac.uk/sample1.php?parameter=personretrieve&alpha=1398
  6. Burial: "Bristol, England, Non-Conformist Baptism, Marriage and Burial Registers, 1644-1981". Bristol Archives; Bristol, England; Bristol Non-Conformist Registers; Reference: 30251/BD/RS/4. Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry uk Record 61689 #1340 (accessed 9 March 2022). Rev Caleb Evans burial (died in 1791) on 13 Aug 1791 in Broadmead, Bristol, England.
  7. Derby Mercury - Thursday 18 August 1791 Accessed from the British Newspaper Archive https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000052/17910818/007/0002 accessed by Trevor Pickup on 28th April 2022]]
  8. https://sites.google.com/view/dissenting-studies-1650-1850/biograph/e/evans-caleb?authuser=0
  • The National Archives reference TNA/RG/4/3766; SOMERSET: Bristol, Broad Mead (Baptist): Births
  • "England and Wales Non-Conformist Record Indexes (RG4-8), 1588-1977," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FW2C-H4G : 11 December 2014), Caleb Evans, 12 Nov 1737, Birth; citing p. 5, Bristol, Somerset, record group RG4, Public Record Office, London.




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