Sebastian Evans
| Sebastian Evans LLD | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1830 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1909 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
Birmingham [1863] Heathfield, Alleyn Park, West Dulwich [1878] 10 Rosary Gardens, South Kensington, SW [1885] Langley Burrell, Chippenham [1894] Goodneston Park, Dover [1897] 15 Waterloo Crescent, Dover [1899] Abbott's Barton, Canterbury [1901] | ||||||||||
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literary legal political artist | ||||||||||
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Notes
Office Notes
AI Council 1880 Member
AI Council 1881 Member
House Notes
proposed 1878.03.12
The Sebastian Evans LLD from Lists 1899 has a start date of 1887 - possibly he is another individual to this Sebastian Evans LLD? - or it could be a typo in the list?
I am assuming that the ASL and the AI man of this name are the same individual - but it is possible that they are NOT
1900 list has 1887 as start date - a misprint? like 1899 list?
death noted in report of the council for 1909
Notes From Elsewhere
Sebastian Evans (1830–1909) was an English journalist and political activist, known also as a man of letters and artist.
He was an author and artist who also worked as a barrister and journalist. In 1857, he became manager of the art department of the glassworks of Messrs Chance Bros. & Co. at Oldbury, near Birmingham. He held this post for ten years, and designed many windows for the company. In 1867, Evans joined the Birmingham Daily Gazette as editor, but left within three years to pursue a legal career. When the editor of the Daily Gazette died in 1886, Sebastian resumed the editorship. He pursued his artistic and poetic interests and exhibited pictures at the Royal Academy and elsewhere. He published several collections of poems, most notably Brother Fabian's Manuscript and other Poems (1865).
Evans knew leading literati of the mid-Victorian period, and later was a close friend of Edward Burne-Jones, who illustrated his history of the "Graal".
In 1857 Evans married Elizabeth, youngest daughter of Francis Bennett Goldney, one of the founders of the London Joint Stock Bank. Of two sons, Sebastian and Francis, the latter assumed the name of Francis Bennett-Goldney, and went into politics
Born Market Bosworth; died Abbot’s Barton, Canterbury.
Manager, Art Department of Chance & Bros, glassmakers 1857-67. His elder brother was Sir John Evans. Journalist in Birmingham 1867-70 after which he pursued a legal career (LL.D Cantab 1868) and called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn 1873. On Oxford circuit but continued artistic and journalistic career.
Publications
External Publications
While an undergraduate Evans published a volume of sonnets on the death of the Duke of Wellington (1852). His other published collections of poems were:[1]
· Brother Fabian's Manuscripts and other Poems, 1865.
· Songs and Etchings, 1871.
· In the Studio, a Decade of Poems, 1875.
He translated Francis of Assisi's 'Mirror of Perfection' (1898) and Geoffrey of Monmouth's History (1904), and with his son Francis Lady Chillingham's House Party, adapted from Édouard Pailleron's Le Monde où l'on s'ennuie (1901). In 1881 he re-edited his father's Leicestershire Words for the English Dialect Society.[1]
Evans was also a translator in verse and prose from mediaeval French, Latin, Greek, and Italian. In 1898 he published The High History of the Holy Graal (new edit. 1910 in Everyman's Library), a version of the old French romance of Perceval le Gallois, as well as an original study of the legend in In Quest of the Holy Graal.[1]
Evans exhibited at the Royal Academy and elsewhere pictures in oil, water-colour, and black and white, and practised wood-carving, engraving, and book-binding
