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.