Benjamin Evans of Scarborough

Abstract

"BENJAMIN EV ANS was born at Bilston in Staffordshire on May 13th, 1803. He was converted in his youth and became a member of the Baptist church in his native town. At the age of twenty he entered Horton College, Bradford (later Rawdon Baptist College), as a candidate for the Baptist ministry. He was called to the pastorate of Ebenezer Baptist chapel, Scarborough, in 1826 .. In this place, where he was to embark on a " course of public and private usefulness"l which lasted throughout his whole life, he married in 1828, Sarah Hill, the daughter of one of his deacons - " an earnest Christian whose whole life was devoted to ministering to the happiness of others"