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    55 flev . Edward Evanson , A . M .

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    connections at College , would have led him to do so , but his uncle urged his return to Mitcham , because he could be of great use to him as an assistant in his school ; which , however contrary to his inclinations , he now regarded as a duty , and his affection and gratitude to his uncle immediately made him deter- * mine to return to Mitcham , and become his uncle ' s assistant in

    his school . In May 1753 he w $ s ordained at the parish church of Newington , Surry , by the Bishop of Worcester , and in JuJy of the same year he went to Cambridge and took his master ' s degree . From this time he accepted the curacy of Mitcham , continuing an assistant in his uncle ' s school ; as a preacher he

    was highly acceptable , as a scholar and a gentleman much < est $ emed _ , receiving many distinguished marks of re $ pect and friendship from the gentlemen of the neighbourhood , and particularly from the late Lord Rosslyn , ( then Mr . Wedderburn ) who resided at Mitcham . In one of the summer vacations he

    took a trip to Ireland , and in the passage from Holyhead , in the packet , he met with Mr . Dodd , then member of Parliament for Reading , who was so much pleased with his engaging man- * ners and conversation ^ that at parting he gave him a pressing invitation to visit him at his seat near Reading , which he did several times . About the year 1760 his uncle resigned the

    school to him , which , together with the curacy , he continued to hold till the beginning of the year I 768 , when he was preisented to the living " of South Mims , near Barnet , by the patron . 3 Vfr . Hammond , of Haling , near Croydon . He removed to South Mims , and occupied the vicarage till December , 1769 , when through the interest of Mr . Dodd with Lord Camden , then Chancellor , he was presented to the living of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire , where he immediately went to reside . A

    few months after , he became acquainted with Mr . Atwood , a clergyman , who held the vicarage of ^ Longdon , Worcestershire , a village about five miles distant from Tewkesbury . Mr . Atwood was one of the minor canons of Westminster , and pro - * posed to Mr . Evanson an exchange of the living of Longdon for South Mims , which being a very desirable proposal Mr . E ,

    readily accepted , because from the vicinity of the one , and the distance of the other , he could better discharge his duty as a pastor , an office which he always considered of very solemn ob < - Jigation . — iC Until this period , " says Mr . E . " never having had

    ecclesiastical preferment sufficient to afford me a decent competence , I had not the leisure necessary for the studious invest tigation of the rise and origin of the most important theological doctrines , but I now set myself to a diligent study of the scriptures of both Testaments , and also whatever remains of jthe waiters of the two first centuries ^ fter the apostolic age , m

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1806, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1720/page/2/