John Evans (surgeon)

John Evans was a Welsh surgeon and cartographer, born on 4 July 1756 at Llwyn-y-groes, Llanymynech, on the border between Montgomeryshire and Shropshire, and dead in October 1846 at the age of 90. He was the son of the map-maker John Evans and was educated at Westminster School and at Jesus College and St Alban Hall, Oxford, taking degrees in arts and divinity before gaining a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After living in Shrewsbury he returned to Llwyn-y-groes on his father's death in 1795. He republished his father's maps of North Wales around 1799, winning a 45 guinea award from the Royal Society of Arts, issued a further edition in 1802, and also wrote a didactic poem called The Bee.