Author talk:Sebastian Evans

Sources

Name: Sebastian Evans
Birth - Death: 1830-1909
Source Citation:

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Venn: Cambridge

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Evans, Sebastian.
Adm. pens. at EMMANUEL, Apr. 19, 1849.
Of Leicestershire. [Youngest] s. of Arthur [Benoni, D.D., clerk, of Market Bosworth, Leics. (for whom see D.N.B.) and Anne, dau. of Capt.
Thomas Dickinson, R.N.]. B. there Mar. 2, 1830.
School, Bosworth Grammar.
Matric. Michs. 1849; Dixie Scholar, 1849; B.A. 1853; M.A. 1856; LL.D. 1868.
Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Jan. 29, 1855.
As a youth displayed great promise as an artist, and while an undergraduate published a volume of sonnets on the death of the Duke of Wellington.
Appointed Secretary of Indian Reform Association, 1855; resigned, 1857.
Manager of Art Dept. of the glass works of Messrs Chance and Co. at Oldbury, 1857-67, designing many windows, including one, illustrating the Robin Hood legend, for the International Exhibition of 1862.
Called to the Bar, 1873; on Birmingham and Oxford Circuits.
Editor of the Birmingham Daily Gazette, 1867.
Wrote leading articles for The Observer, and contributed articles and stories, chiefly mystical, to Macmillan's and Longman's Magazines. In 1878, shared in the foundation of The People, a weekly Conservative newspaper, and edited it for the first three years.
Exhibited at the Royal Academy.
His versatility and charm brought him many friends of varied types, including Thackeray, Huxley, Newman, Matthew Arnold, Joseph Chamberlain, Burne-Jones and Ruskin.
Married, 1857, Elizabeth, dau. of Francis Bennett Goldney, one of the founders of the London Joint Stock Bank.
His son, Francis, M.P. for Canterbury, assumed the name of Bennett Goldney.
Author, The High History of the Holy Grail, In Quest of the Holy Grail; Brother Fabian's MSS. and Other Poems; Songs and Etchings; In the Studio. In 1881 re-edited his father's Leicestershire Words for the English Dialect Society.
Retired to Abbot's Barton, Canterbury, where he died Dec. 18, 1909.
(D.N.B.; Scott, MSS.; Law Lists; Foster, Men at the Bar, which erroneously gives 's. of Arthur Benvin, D.D.'^[1], and 'b. in 1831'; The Times, Dec. 20, 1909.)

1. Marriage certificate in 1858 clearly states Arthur Benoni Evans, D.D. (Wikisource contributor note)

Allibone's Supplement

Evans, Sebastian, LL.D., brother of John Evans, D.C.L., supra; b. 1830, at Market Bosworth; graduated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1853; was connected for some years with a manufactory of glass works as manager of the artistic department; editor of a Birmingham daily newspaper 1867-70; called to the bar 1873, and, after practising at Birmingham, settled in London in 1878 and became editor of a Sunday paper.

1. Brother Fabian's Manuscript, and other Poems, Lon., 1865, 12mo.
2. In the Studio: a Decade of Poems. Lon., 1875, 12mo.
3. (Ed.) Leicestershire Words, Phrases, and Proverbs. By Arthur Benoni Evans. (English Dialect Soc.) Lon., 1881, 8vo.