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ERRINGTON, Most Rev. George (2 son of Thomas Errington of Clintz near Richmond, Yorkshire). b. Clintz 14 Sep. 1804; ed. at Ushaw 1814–21 and English college, Rome 1821–24; sub-deacon 1825, deacon 1826, priest 22 Dec. 1827; D.D. cum præmio 1827; vice rector of English college, Rome 29 May 1832 to 1843; travelled in France and Spain 1832–40; presided over the studies in St. Mary’s coll. Oscott 1843–47; employed at Liverpool and Salford 1848–51; bishop of newly created see of Plymouth 27 June 1851 to March 1855; consecrated in church of St. John, Salford by Abp. Wiseman 25 July 1851; coadjutor to Cardinal Wiseman with title of Archbishop of Trebizond in partibus March 1855 to 2 July 1862; administrator of diocese of Clifton, Oct. 1855 to Feb. 1857; assistant at pontifical throne 5 Dec. 1869; held charge of missions in Isle of Man 1865–8; undertook tuition of young theological students at St. Paul’s college, Prior Park, Bath, Oct. 1870 to death; author of Four lectures on the hierarchy of the Catholic Church 1850; The Irish land question 1880. d. Prior Park 19 Jany. 1886. M. Brady’s Episcopal Succession, iii, 376, 436, 437, 473 (1877).

ERRINGTON, John Edward (eld. son of John Errington). b. Hull 29 Dec. 1806; a resident engineer on Grand Junction railway to 1837; joint engineer with Joseph Locke of Lancaster and Carlisle railway 1843; constructed Caledonian railway 1848; engineer to London and South Western railway 1856–60; A.I.C.E. 1831, M.I.C.E. 22 Jany. 1839, mem. of council 1850, vice pres. 1861–62. d. 6 Pall Mall east, London 4 July 1862. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxii, 626–29 (1863).

ERSKINE, David Montagu Erskine, 2 Baron (eld. son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823). Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1797, LLD. 1811; barrister L.I. 20 Nov. 1802; M.P. for Portsmouth 19 Feb. to July 1806; min. plenipo. to United States, July 1806 to 1809, at Stuttgard 1825–28; ambassador at Munich, Feb. 1828 to Nov. 1843 when he retired on pension. d. Butler’s Green near Lewes 19 March 1855 aged 79.

ERSKINE, Edward Morris (4 son of the preceding). b. Brighton 28 March 1817; attaché at Munich 25 Sep. 1835; envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at Athens 7 May 1864 to 24 July 1872, at Stockholm 24 July 1872 to 1 May 1881 when he retired on a pension; C.B. 25 Feb. 1873. d. Neville house, Twickenham 19 April 1883.

ERSKINE, Very Rev. Henry David (2 son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823). Ed. at Univ. of Edin. and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. Cam. 1809; D.D. Columbia coll. New York 1852; R. of Swithland, Leics. 1817–41; R. of Kirby Underdale, Yorkshire 1840 to death; preb. of York cath. 28 Oct. 1845, dean of Ripon 23 Sep. 1847 to death. d. Ripon 27 July 1859 aged 72.

ERSKINE, John Elphinstone (son of David Erskine of Cardross, Stirling). b. 13 July 1806; entered navy 1819; captain 28 June 1838; M.P. for Stirlingshire, July 1865 to 26 Jany. 1874; R.A. 4 Nov. 1857; commanded a division of Channel Squadron 1859–61, admiral 10 Sep. 1869; author of A short account of the discoveries of gold in Australia 1851; Journal of a cruise among the islands of the Western Pacific 1853. d. 1 Albany, Piccadilly, London 23 June 1887.

ERSKINE, Thomas (3 son of 1 Baron Erskine 1750–1823). b. 10 Serjeant’s Inn, Fleet st. London 12 March 1788; ed. at Harrow; entered at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. as a peer’s son without residence or examination 1811; secretary of presentations 1806; practised as special pleader 1810–13; barrister L.I. 20 May 1813; K.C. Nov. 1827; chief judge of Court of Review in Bankruptcy 2 Dec. 1831 to Nov. 1842; P.C. 1831; a judge of Court of Common Pleas 9 Jany. 1839 to Nov. 1844; pres. of Trinitarian Bible Society 1840. d. Bournemouth 9 Nov. 1864.

ERSKINE, Thomas (youngest son of David Erskine of Linlathen, Forfarshire, who d. 5 April 1791). b. Edinburgh 13 Oct. 1788; an advocate in Edin. 1810–16; a friend of Dr. Chalmers and Thomas Carlyle; author of Remarks on the internal evidence of the truth of revealed religion 1820, 10 ed. 1878; An essay on faith 1822; The unconditional freeness of the Gospel 1828; The doctrine of election and its connection with Christianity 1837, 2 ed. 1878 and 8 other books. d. Edinburgh 20 March 1870. Letters of Thomas Erskine of Linlathen edited by W. Hanna 1878.

ESCOTT, Bickham Sweet. b. 1802; barrister M.T. 17 June 1825; M.P. for Winchester 1841–47; contested West Somerset at general elections of 1832, 1835 and 1847; author of A letter on the reform question 1831 and other works on same subject. d. Hartrow manor, Somerset 4 Nov. 1853.

ESDAILE, James. b. Montrose 6 Feb. 1808; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1830; assistant surgeon Bengal army 1831; presidency surgeon at Calcutta 1848, marine surgeon 1850 to 1 June 1851; began practising mesmerism 1845; author of Letters from the Red Sea, Egypt and the Continent, Calcutta 1839; Mesmerism in India and its practical application in surgery and medicine 1846; Natural and mesmeric clairvoyance with the practical application of mesmerism in surgery and medicine 1852 and other books. d. Elm bank, Lawrie road, Sydenham 10 Jany. 1859.

ESMONDE, Sir John, 9 or 10 Baronet. b. Kilmanock, co. Wexford 16 May 1826; ed. at Clongowes Wood and Trin. coll. Dublin; called to Irish bar 1850; M.P. for co. Waterford 1852 to death; sheriff of Wexford 1866, of Wicklow 1875. d. 9 Dec. 1876.

ESMONDE, Sir Thomas, 8 or 9 Baronet. b. 10 Dec. 1786; succeeded his uncle 19 Dec. 1803; M.P. for Wexford 1841–47; P.C. Ireland 1847. d. 31 Dec. 1868.

ESPINASSE, James (only son of Isaac Espinasse of Bexley, Kent, who d. 14 Feb. 1834 aged 76). b. 1798; ed. at Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1820; barrister G.I. 27 June 1827; recorder of Rochester 1842 to death; judge of county courts, circuit 49 (West Kent), March 1847 to death; author of A treatise on the law of bankrupts 1823. d. The college, Maidstone 16 March 1867.

ESSEX, Catharine Capel-Coningsby, Countess of (dau. of Edward Stephens of London, carver and gilder). b. London 18 Sep. 1791; sang under name of Miss Young at many concerts in the provinces; sang in Italian opera at the Pantheon, London 1812 as Catharine Stephens; first appeared at Covent Garden as Mandane in Arne’s opera Artaxerxes Sep. 1813; played Polly in The Beggar’s Opera and Clara in The Duenna; sang at Drury Lane 1822–26; sang at concerts and in oratorios; one of the finest soprano singers; her voice reached to the high D; retired from the stage 1831. (m. 19 April 1838 George Capel-Coningsby 5 Earl of Essex 1757–1839), she d. 9 Belgrave sq. London 22 Feb. 1882, mural monument erected in Watford church, Herts. March 1885. Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography ii, 123–36 (1825), portrait; Mrs. C. B. Wilson’s Our Actresses i, 276–87 (1844), portrait; E. C. Clayton’s Queens of song ii, 33–44 (1865); Theatrical Inquisitor iii, 259–61 (1813), portrait; Musical Gem (1832), 2–3, portrait.

ESSEX, William. Enamel painter; sole exponent of the art after death of H. P. Bone 1855; painted many miniature copies of pictures by Correggio, Guido, Wilkie and others; exhibited 109 enamels at R.A., 20 at B.I. and 17 at Suffolk st. gallery 1818–64; enamel painter to the Queen 1839 to death; a private exhibition of his works was held in 1839, of which a catalogue was printed. d. Brighton 29 Dec. 1869 aged 85.

ESTCOURT, Rev. Edgar Edmund (eld. son of Rev. Edmund William Estcourt of Newnton, Wilts.) b. 7 Feb. 1816; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., B.A. 1838, M.A. 1840; C. of Cirencester, Gloucs. 1842–45; received into Church of Rome at Prior Park, Dec. 1845; ordained priest 1848; œconomus of diocese of Birmingham 1850; canon of St. Chad’s cathedral, Birmingham to death; author of The dogmatic teaching of the Book of Common Prayer on the subject of the Holy Eucharist 1868; The question of Anglican orders discussed 1873; The memoir of Jane Dormer, Duchess of Feria, edited by Rev. J. Stevenson 1887. d. Leamington 16 April 1884. bur. Kenilworth.

ESTCOURT, James Bucknall (2 son of the succeeding). b. Edward st. Portman sq. London 12 July 1802; ed. at Harrow; ensign 44 foot 13 July 1820, second in command in Euphrates valley expedition 1834–36; major 43 foot 21 Oct. 1836 to 25 Aug. 1843 when placed on h.p.; adjutant general in the Crimea 21 Feb. 1854 to death; granted distinguished service reward 25 Oct. 1854; M.G. 12 Dec. 1854; M.P. for Devizes 1848–52; named a K.C.B. in London Gazette 10 July 1855. d. of cholera in camp before Sebastopol 23 June 1855.

ESTCOURT, Thomas Grimston Bucknall (eld. son of Thomas Estcourt of Estcourt, Gloucs. 1748–1818). b. 3 Aug. 1775; ed. at C.C. coll. Ox., M.A. 1796; hon. D.C.L. 1827; barrister L.I. 20 June 1820; recorder of Devizes; chairman of Wiltshire general quarter sessions to 1837; M.P. for Devizes 1805–26, for Univ. of Ox. 1826–47. d. Estcourt 26 July 1853.

ESTCOURT, Thomas Henry Sutton Sotheron (eld. son of the preceding). b. 4 April 1801; ed. at Harrow and Oriel coll. Ox.; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, D.C.L. 1857; M.P. for Marlborough 1829–1832, for Devizes 1835–1844, for North Wilts, 1844 to 1865; pres. of Poor law board 8 March 1858 to 9 March 1859; P.C. 1858; sec. of state for home department 3 March 1859 to June 1859. d. Estcourt 6 Jany. 1876. I.L.N. xxxii, 312 (1858), portrait, lxviii, 70, 76, 83, 287 (1876), portrait.

ESTLIN, John Bishop (son of John Prior Estlin of Bristol, schoolmaster 1747–1817). b. St. Michael’s hill, Bristol 26 Dec. 1785; M.C.S. 1806, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon at Bristol 1808 to death, where he established a dispensary for treatment of diseases of the eye 1812 which he managed 1812–49; one of the chief ophthalmic surgeons; author of On prayer and divine aid 1825; Remarks on Mesmerism 1845. d. Park st. Bristol 10 June 1855. Memoir of J. B. Estlin By W. James 1855.

ETHERIDGE, Most Rev. James. b. Redmarley, Worcs. 19 Oct. 1808; ed. at Stonyhurst coll.; ordained priest 1836; rector of Mount St. Mary’s coll. 1842; minister at Hodder 1842; minister of St. Wilfred’s, Preston 1855; bishop of Torona and vicar apostolic of British Guiana 1858 to death; consecrated by Cardinal Wiseman in London 17 Oct. 1858. d. on his passage from Barbadoes to Georgetown, Demerara 1 Jany. 1878.

ETHERIDGE, Rev. John Wesley. b. Youngwoods near Newport, Isle of Wight 24 Feb. 1804; Wesleyan minister at Hull 1827, London 1829, in Cornwall 1833–37 and 1853 to death; Ph.D. Heidelberg 1847; a scholar in many languages; author of The Syrian churches, their history, liturgies and literature with translation of the Four Gospels from the Peschito 1846; The Life of Dr. Adam Clarke 1858; The Life of Dr. Thomas Coke 1860 and other books. d. Camborne 24 May 1866. Rev. T. Smith’s Memoirs of Rev. J. W. Etheridge 1871.

ETWALL, Ralph. b. in or near Andover 1804; M.P. for Andover 1831–47; kept a racing stud 1832 to about 1849; one of the best known coursers in south of England. d. Connaught st. Hyde Park, London 15 Dec. 1882. William Day’s Reminiscences of the turf, 2 ed. 1886, pp. 241–46.

EUING, William. b. Partick near Glasgow 20 May 1788; ed. at Glasgow gr. sch. and univ.; an underwriter and insurance broker at Glasgow 1819; founded a music lectureship at Anderson’s college, Glasgow by deed dated 1866; left his valuable musical library (of which a catalogue was printed) to Anderson’s college, with £1000 for its maintenance. d. Glasgow 12 May 1874. T. Mason’s Public and private libraries of Glasgow 1885 pp. 176–93, 437; Rev. C. Rogers’s Leaves from my autobiography (1876) p. 331; Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xxxi, 231–2 (1875).

EUSTACE, Sir John Rowland (youngest son of Charles Eustace of Robertstown, co. Kildare). b. 1795; ed. at St. Peter’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1816; captain Grenadier guards 5 July 1827 to 24 April 1840 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 2 April 1859; knighted 1816; K.H. 1835; sheriff of Kildare 1848. d. Bouverie sq. Folkestone 7 Aug. 1864.

EUSTACE, Sir William Cornwallis (brother of the preceding). Lieut. 32 foot 27 Sep. 1783; lieut. col. Chasseurs Britanniques 23 Aug. 1810 to 1814 when placed on h.p. regiment being disbanded; captain Grenadier guards 25 March 1818 to 18 May 1826 when placed on h.p.; col. 60 Rifles 7 April 1843 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 4 June 1815; K.C.H. 1832. d. Sampford hall, Essex 9 Feb. 1855 aged 73.

EVANS, Rev. Alfred Bowen. b. Finsbury sq. London 1816; C. of Enfield, Middlesex 1854–61; R. of St. Mary-le-Strand, London 1861 to death; a powerful and original preacher; D.D. by Abp. of Canterbury 1863; author of Dissent and its inconsistences 1841; Christianity in its homely aspects 2 vols. 1852–4; Lectures on the book of Job 1856 and 30 other books. d. 23 Gloucester crescent, Regent’s park, London 6 Nov. 1878. Rev. C. M. Davies’s Orthodox London (1874) 176–85.

EVANS, Anne (dau. of the succeeding). b. 4 June 1820; resided at Britwell court near Burnham, then at Bosworth, afterwards at 16 Kensington sq. London; a friend of Thackeray and his daughters; poet and musician. d. 16 Kensington sq. London 19 Feb. 1870. Anne Evans’ Poems and music, with memorial preface by Anne Thackeray Ritchie 1880, portrait.

EVANS, Rev. Arthur Benoni (2 son of Rev. Lewis Evans 1755–1827, V. of Froxfield, Wilts.) b. Compton-Beauchamp, Berks. 25 March 1781; ed. at Gloucester and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1804, M.A. 1820, B.D. and D.D. 1828; C. of Hartpury, Gloucs. 1804; professor of classics and history in royal military college, Great Marlow 1805–12 when he removed with the college to Sandhurst, resigned 1822; C. of Burnham, Bucks. 1822–29; master of Market Bosworth free gr. sch. 1829 to death; C. of Bosworth Carlton and Cadeby successively 1829–41; author of Synopses for the use of the students in the royal military academy; The Curate and other poems 1810; Leicestershire words, phrases and proverbs 1848, and 16 other books. d. Market Bosworth 8 Nov. 1854. G.M. xliii, 100–102 (1855).

EVANS, Brooke (son of Thomas Evans of Birmingham, tailor). b. Bull st. Birmingham 1797; manufacturer of fire arms in the United States; indigo planter and merchant; glass and lead merchant at Stratford-on-Avon 6 years; partner with Charles Askin as manufacturers of nickel and cobalt at Birmingham 1835–47 when Askin died, managed the business (which gained a European reputation) 1847 to death. d. Birmingham 15 Sep. 1862.

EVANS, Caleb. b. 25 July 1831; clerk in Chancery pay office, London 1852–82; collected fossils near London 1858–83; a founder of Geologists’ Association of London 1857; F.G.S. 1867; author of 11 papers on geological subjects, some of which were published separately; constructed several excellent geological models or relief maps. d. 16 Sep. 1886.

EVANS, Charles (eld. son of Rev. Benjamin Evans, assistant master at Harrow). b. Harrow 1798; ed. at Eton and Pemb. coll. Cam., 12 wrangler 1819; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822; fell. of his coll. 1821; barrister L.I. 4 Feb. 1823; revising barrister for Norwich 1832 to death; comr. of bankrupts for Norwich; chancellor of diocese of Norwich 1845 to death; pres. of directors of Norwich Union Fire office. d. Norwich 21 Oct. 1868.

EVANS, Charles John. Entered British Museum 1858; compiled the catalogue of music which occupied him 15 years; wrote many articles in Grove’s Dictionary of Musicians 3 vols. 1879–82; played the fagotto or bassoon in the Wandering Minstrels Orchestra. d. 150 King’s road, Chelsea 8 Dec. 1884.

EVANS, Daniel Thomas (eld. son of Thomas Evans of Taunton). b. Cain’s Cross, Gloucs.; barrister M.T. 19 Nov. 1847; sub-editor of The Law Times 1843–46; joint editor of Wise and Evans’s Digest 1846–55, sole editor 1855–73 when it ceased. d. London 6 Nov. 1885 in 73 year.

EVANS, David Morier (son of Joshua Lloyd Evans of Llanidloes, Montgomeryshire). b. London, 1819; assistant city correspondent of The Times 1846–57; manager of Morning Herald 1857, of Standard 1857–72; started The Hour, daily morning paper, March 1873; became bankrupt 19 Dec. 1873; editor and part proprietor of Banker’s Mag., and Banker’s Almanac and Bullionist; author of The commercial crisis of 1847–48, 1849; City men and city manners 1856; Revelations of facts, failures and frauds 1861. d. Albion house, King Edward’s road, South Hackney, London 1 Jany. 1874.

EVANS, Edward David (eld. son of Edward Evans of London, printseller, who d. 24 Nov. 1835 aged 46). Printseller at 1 Great Queen st., Lincoln’s Inn Fields with his mother and brother 1835–53, then at 403 Strand 1853 to death. d. 3 Circus road, St. John’s Wood, London 15 Aug. 1860 aged 42.

EVANS, Rev. Evan. b. Gellillyndy, Llanddewibrefi, Cardiganshire 8 March 1804; Calvinistic preacher 1825; joined the Independents 1847; went to America 1869; collected a small Welsh church in Arkansas 1881, in charge of it to his death; author of numerous works in the Welsh language. d. 29 Oct. 1886.

EVANS, Evan William. b. near Swansea 1827; graduated at Yale Univ. 1851; principal of Delaware institute, Franklin, New York; a tutor in Yale 1855–57; professor of natural philosophy and astronomy in Marietta college, Ohio 1857–64; a mining engineer 1864–67; professor of mathematics in Cornell Univ. 1868–72; regarded as the best Celtic scholar in the United States. d. Ithaca, New York 22 May 1874.

EVANS, Frederick John (son of John Evans, gas engineer). b. 1818; chief consulting engineer of Gas light and coke company, London 1863–72, the works at Beckton, opposite Woolwich, finest establishment of the kind in the world were opened 1871; this company absorbed 7 other companies 1870–76, in 1881 it made about two-thirds of the whole metropolitan supply; discovered valuable properties of oxide of iron for gas purification which revolutionised conduct of that process; A.I.C.E. 10 March 1840; M.I.C.E. 9 Feb. 1864. d. Clayponds, Brentford 8 July 1880. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. lxiii, 311–13 (1881).

EVANS, Sir Frederick John Owen (son of John Evans, master R.N.) b. 9 March 1815; entered navy 1828; superintendent of compass department of navy 1855; Chief Naval Assistant to the hydrographer to the admiralty 1865, hydrographer to the admiralty 1874–84; captain 1872; C.B. 8 May 1873; K.C.B. 24 May 1881; F.R.S. 5 June 1862, vice pres. 1876; author of Chart of curves of equal magnetic declination 1858; Report on compass deviations in the royal navy 1860; edited with Archibald Smith, Admiralty manual for ascertaining deviations of the compass 1862, 3 ed. 1869. d. 21 Dawson place, Bayswater, London 20 Dec. 1885. Proc. of Royal Soc. xl, 1–7 (1886).

EVANS, Sir George De Lacy (son of John Evans of Miltown). b. Moig, co. Limerick 7 Oct. 1787; ensign 22 foot 1 Feb. 1807; captain 5 West India regiment 1815–17 when placed on h.p.; M.P. for Rye 1830–31, for Westminster 1833–41 and 1846–65; contested Westminster and Rye, Dec. 1832; commanded British legion of 9,600 men in Spain, June 1835 to June 1837; col. 21 foot 29 Aug. 1853 to death; commanded 2nd division of British army in Crimea 1854–55; general 10 March 1861; K.C.B. 13 Feb. 1838, G.C.B. 5 July 1855; granted distinguished service reward 1 Sep. 1848; grand officer of Legion of Honour 1856; author of Facts relating to the capture of Washington 1829 and other books. d. 6 Great Cumberland st. Hyde park, London 9 Jany. 1870. G. Ryan’s Our Heroes (1855) 13–36; G. Mackay’s Leaders of the Host 1854; Diprose’s St. Clements i, 64–68 (1869); E. H. Nolan’s Russian war i, 661 (1857), portrait; Duncan’s The English in Spain (1877) 41, 342.

Note.—The thanks of the House of Commons were voted to him “in his place” 2 Feb. 1855 and so the seat from which he heard the thanks read out became his all the rest of the time he sat in the House.

EVANS, George Henry. b. Bromyard, Herefordshire 25 March 1805; went to the United States 1820, one of the earliest land reformers there; advocated inalienable homesteads, general bankrupt laws and laborers’ liens; edited and published The Man, at Ithaca, New York about 1822; the Working Man’s Advocate, in New York 1830; The Daily Sentinel 1837; and Young America, in New York and then at Rahway, New Jersey 1853. d. Granville, New Jersey 2 Feb. 1855.

EVANS, John (only son of John Evans of Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire). Ed. at univ. of Glasgow and Geneva; barrister I.T. 16 June 1820; Q.C. 1837; bencher of his inn 1837, reader 1849, treasurer 1850; M.P. for Haverfordwest 1847–52; F.S.A. 3 Feb. 1853. d. Buxton 17 Oct. 1864 aged 68.

EVANS, Ven. John. b. Carmarthen; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.D. 1830; V. of Llanboidy, Carmarthenshire 1827 to death; R. of Llanglydwen, Carmarthenshire 1832 to death; archdeacon of Carmarthen 1858 to death. d. Nantyr-Eglwys, St. Clear’s 7 Feb. 1865.

EVANS, Rev. John. b. Ty Mawr, North Wales 23 July 1814; Welsh poet and Calvinistic methodist minister; better known as I. D. Fpaid; author of History of the Jews 1830 in Welsh; translated into Welsh Young’s Night Thoughts and Milton’s Paradise Lost; contributed prose and verse to Welsh periodicals. d. 4 March 1876.

EVANS, Rev. John (son of John Evans of Wellington, Somerset). Matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 13 Oct. 1814 aged 18; P.C. of Whixhall, Salop 1844 to death; author of Compendious view of the authenticity and inspiration of the Old and New Testament 1828; Statutes of the fourth general council of the Lateran 1843 and many other books. d. Whixhall vicarage 7 March 1889.

EVANS, Rev. Lewis (4 son of Thomas Simpson Evans of St. Botolphs, London). Matric. from Wadham coll. Ox. 30 June 1832 aged 17; B.A. 1836, M.A. 1842; fell. of his coll. 1839–46; head master of Sandbach free gr. sch. 1850 to death; edited Marshall’s Penitential Discipline 1844; Bishop Beveridge’s Sermons 8 vols.; author of The satires of Juvenal Persius, Sulpicia and Lucillius literally translated into English prose with notes 1848; author with Rev. J. G. Sheppard of Notes upon Thucydides Books i and ii, 1857. d. Gloucester 28 March 1869.

EVANS, Richard. Portrait painter and copyist; pupil and assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence; lived at Rome many years; exhibited 42 pictures at R.A. 1816–59. d. Southampton, Nov. 1871 aged 87.

EVANS, Robert Harding (son of Thomas Evans of London, bookseller 1742–84). Ed. at Westminster school; apprenticed to Thomas Payne bookseller at the Mewsgate; general bookseller in Pall Mall 1804–12; auctioneer at sale of Roxburghe and many other famous libraries 1812–47; edited Bishop Burnet’s History of his own time 4 vols. 1808–9; Hakluyt’s Collection of early voyages of the English nation 5 vols. 1809–12 and other books; author with Thomas Wright of Historical account of the caricatures of James Gillray 1851. d. Edward st. Hampstead road, London 25 April 1857 in 80 year. Dibdin’s Bibliographical Decameron iii, 51 (1817), portrait; G.M. ii, 734–5 (1857).

EVANS, Ven. Robert Wilson (2 son of John Evans, M.D. of Shrewsbury). b. the council house, Shrewsbury 30 Aug. 1789; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., 7th wrangler 1811; B.A. 1811, M.A. 1814, B.D. 1842; fellow of his college 1813, classical tutor 1814; V. of Tarvin, Cheshire 1836–42; V. of Heversham, Westmoreland 1842 to death; archdeacon of Westmoreland 1856 to Jany. 1865; author of The Bishopric of Souls 1842, 5 ed. 1877; The rectory of Valehead 1830, 12 ed. 1842; Tales of the ancient British church 1840, 3 ed. 1859 and 25 other works. d. Heversham vicarage 10 March 1866. E. Bickersteth’s ed. of Bishopric of Souls (1877) v-xiv, portrait; The Church of England Photographic portrait gallery (1859), portrait 33.