Modern English biography, volume 1 (of 4), A-H

by Frederic Boase

EVERETT, Edward (4 son of Joseph Everett of Salisbury, banker). b. 13 May 1798; ed. at Winchester and Ball. coll. Ox.; B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; a barrister M.T. 28 May 1824; a conveyancer at Salisbury; judge of court of requests at Salisbury; judge of Dorset county courts (circuit 56), March 1847 to Dec. 1867 when he resigned. d. Clifton 24 Jany. 1870.

EVERETT, Rev. James (2 son of John Everett of Alnwick). b. Alnwick 16 May 1784; Wesleyan minister at Shields 1807, in Derbyshire 1808–10, in Yorkshire 1810–22, at Newcastle 1834–39, at York 1839–42; bookseller at Sheffield 1823–25, at York 1839–42; expelled from Wesleyan conference 7 Aug. 1849 being suspected of authorship of the Fly Sheets reflecting on leading men of the conference; lived at Newcastle 1853–59, at Sunderland 1859 to death; pres. of United Methodist Free Churches, July 1857; author of Adam Clarke portrayed 3 vols. 1843 and 17 other works. d. Sunderland 10 May 1872. James Everett, a biography by Richard Chew 1875; G. Gilfillan’s Remoter Stars 1867 pp. 14–25; I.L.N. xv, 188 (1849), portrait.

EVERITT, Allen Edward (son of Edward Everitt of Birmingham, art dealer). b. Birmingham 1824; a painter there all his life; member of Royal Soc. of Artists of Birmingham 1857, hon. sec. 1858 to death; taught drawing in midland counties; hon. curator of Birmingham free art gallery, June 1880 to death; illustrated Davidson’s History of the Holtes of Aston 1854, and History of Old St. Martin’s, Birmingham 1875. d. The Grove, Frederick road, Edgbaston 11 June 1882. Edgbastonia ii, 108 (1882), portrait.

EVERSLEY, Charles Shaw-Lefevre, 1 Viscount (eld. son of Charles Shaw-Lefevre, M.P. for Reading, who d. 27 April 1823). b. Bedford sq., London 22 Feb. 1794; ed. at Winchester and Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1815, M.A. 1819; barrister L.I. 12 May 1819; bencher 29 May 1839; M.P. for Downton, Wilts. 1830–31, for Hampshire 1831–32, for North Hants. 1832–57; speaker of House of Commons 27 May 1839 to 20 March 1857; P.C. 3 June 1839; second comr. of church estates 24 Aug. 1850; created Viscount Eversley of Heckfield co. Southampton 11 April 1857; governor of Isle of Wight 31 Oct. 1857; an ecclesiastical comr. for England 2 Aug. 1859. d. Heckfield place, Winchfield, Hants. 28 Dec. 1888. bur. Kensal Green cemetery 2 Jany. 1889. J. A. Manning’s Lives of the speakers (1850), 494–96; I.L.N. xxx, 109 (1857), portrait, 5 Jany. 1889, p. 8, portrait.

EWART, John Frederick. b. Berlin 28 July 1786; ensign 52 foot 1 Nov. 1803; lieut. col. York Chasseurs 15 Sep. 1814 to 8 May 1817; lieut. col. 67 foot 5 Feb. 1818 to June 1826; inspecting field officer of Coventry recruiting district 1826–37; col. 67 foot 30 Oct. 1852 to death; L.G. 20 June 1854; C.B. 24 Oct. 1818. d. 1^A Wellington road, St. John’s Wood, London 23 Oct. 1854.

EWART, Joseph Christopher (2 son of Wm. Ewart of Liverpool, merchant). b. Liverpool 1799; ed. at Eton; a merchant at Liverpool; a founder of Peninsular and Oriental steam navigation company; M.P. for Liverpool 1855–65. d. Broadleas near Devizes 14 Dec. 1868.

EWART, William (brother of the preceding). b. Liverpool 1 May 1798; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; Newdigate prizeman 1820; B.A. 1821; barrister M.T. 26 Jany. 1827; M.P. for Bletchingly 1828–30, for Liverpool 1830–37, for Wigan 1839–41, for Dumfries district 1841–68; author of The Temple of Diana at Ephesus 1820. d. Broadleas 23 Jany. 1869. Reg. and mag. of biography i, 209–10, 522 (1869); I.L.N. 25 July 1846, p. 53, portrait, 6 March 1869, p. 237, portrait.

EWBANK, Thomas. b. Barnard castle, Durham 11 March 1792; maker of cases for preserved meats in London 1812–19; manufacturer of lead, tin and copper tubing in New York 1820–36; comr. of patents in Washington 1849–52; a founder and pres. of American Ethnological Society; author of A descriptive and historical account of hydraulic and other machines for raising water 1842, 17 ed. 1876; The world a workshop, or the physical relationship of man to the earth 1855; Life in Brazil, or the land of the cocoa and the palm 1856 and other books all published at New York. d. 140 East Thirty-first st. New York 16 Sep. 1870.

EWING, Right Rev. Alexander (eld. son of John Ewing, advocate of Shelagreen, Aberdeenshire 1790–1827). b. Castle st. Aberdeen 25 March 1814; ed. at Chelsea 1830–31, Edin. univ. 1831 and 1834–35; incumbent of Forres 1841–47; bishop of Argyll and the Isles 28 Oct. 1847 to death; provost of Cumbrae 28 June 1854 to 28 Dec. 1866; D.C.L. Ox. 1851; author of Revelation considered as light 1873, new ed. 1874; The relations of the church of England with foreign churches 1866 and 15 other books. d. Westmill rectory, Herts. 22 May 1873. Memoir of Right Rev. A. Ewing by A. J. Ross 1879, portrait.

EWING, James (son of Walter Ewing who assumed name of Maclae, arbitrator, d. 22 Oct. 1814). b. Glasgow 7 Dec. 1775; educ. High sch. Glasgow and univ. of Glasgow, D.C.L. 1835; West India merchant; lord dean of Guild 10 Oct. 1816; helped to establish first Provident or Savings bank in Glasgow of which he was deputy governor 19 June 1815; president of the Andersonian univ. 1817; gave an annual silver medal to Glasgow high sch.; lord provost of Glasgow 1820; a founder of the Royal Exchange and the Fir park; M.P. Glasgow 19 Dec. 1832 to 30 Dec. 1834, contested Glasgow 17 Jany. 1835; author of a History of the Merchants’ House; left £70,000 to Glasgow charities. d. Glasgow 29 Nov. 1853. Mackay’s Memoir of James Ewing 1866, portrait; Bourne’s English Merchants ii, 321–39 (1866).