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'''Sebastian Evans'''
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AI Council 1880 Member<br />AI Council 1881 Member
=== House Notes ===
proposed 1878.03.12<br />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?<br />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<br />1900 list has 1887 as start date - a misprint? like 1899 list?<br />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.<br />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).<br />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". <br />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<br /><br />Born Market Bosworth; died Abbot’s Barton, Canterbury.<br />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.<br />