. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Obituary Notice. CANON T. J. EVANS. We regret to announce the sudden death of Canon Evans, of Knutsford, Cheshire. Canon Evans had been a bee- keeper for many years, and was one of the original members of the ( re-shire Bee- keepers' Association when it severed its connection with what, tip to that time, bad been the Lancashire and Cheshire Ree-keepers' Association.; He has been Chairman of the Cheshire Association and B. B. Brooke. Mr. Franklin has kindly sent us the photograph and also a cutting from the Chester Chronicle, from which we
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Obituary Notice. CANON T. J. EVANS. We regret to announce the sudden death of Canon Evans, of Knutsford, Cheshire. Canon Evans had been a bee- keeper for many years, and was one of the original members of the ( re-shire Bee- keepers' Association when it severed its connection with what, tip to that time, bad been the Lancashire and Cheshire Ree-keepers' Association.; He has been Chairman of the Cheshire Association and B. B. Brooke. Mr. Franklin has kindly sent us the photograph and also a cutting from the Chester Chronicle, from which we take the following apprecia- tion, as showing the esteem in which Canon Evans was held in the county :— "It is no exaggeration to say that the inhabitants of Knutsford have experi- enced a sense of personal loss and be- reavement by the death which occurred on Tuesday, October 25, after a tragic pulpit seizure of the vicar of the parish —the Bev. T. J. Evans—a man of striking and engaging personality, who has left his mark for good upon the diocese and its institutions. Described as it was by many of his hearers as th.» finest senium lie had ever delivered, the. THE LATE CANON EVANS. since 1903, and was always the central figure in the bee-keeping industry in Cheshire. He passed what is now the preliminary examination in 1897, in com- pany with Mr. W. Bradburn, they were the only two successful candidates, the examiners being the late Mr. W. B. Carr and Mr. J. M. Hooker. His death will be a great blow to the Cheshire Bee- keepers' Association. He was buried at Ifargrave (his first living, and where he first started bee-keeping) on October 28, the Cheshire Association being repre- sented at the funeral by Messrs. E. W. franklin (Hon. Secretary), E. P. Hinde. Vicar preached on Sunday morning with even more than his usual fervency an I earnestness on the efficacy of pra\er, basing his discourse on the 10th ver»e of the tth Chapter of Daniel—' He knelt upon his knees
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