mission. He was attorney-general of Maine in 1853, 1854, and 1856, and was for twenty-two years a trustee of Bowdoin college, which gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1847.
EVANS, Sir George De Lacy, British soldier,
b. in Moig, Ireland, in 1787: d. in London.' 9 Jan..
1870. He entered the British army in 1807, served
ill India and Spain, and in 1814, when brevet lieu-
tenant-colonel of the 5th West India regiment, was
ordered to this country. He was at the battle of
Bladensburg on 24 Aug., where two horses were
killed under him, and led the small force that en-
tered Washington and destroyed the public build-
ings there. He also took part in Ross's expedition
against Baltimore in September, and was near that
officer when he fell. At New Orleans he was the
only landsman that volunteered to accompany the
expedition against the American sloops defending
Lake Borgne. He was wounded before New
Orleans on 23 Dec, 1814, and again on 8 Jan.,
1815, and was sent home. He recovered just in
time to join Wellington at Quatre Bras, where
again two horses were killed under him. He com-
manded in Spain, in 1835-'7, the British auxiliary
legion, and after 1846 was member of parliament
from Westminster. He served as a lieutenant-
general in the Crimean war, commanding the 2d
division of the English army, and was distinguished
at the Alma and at Inkerman, receiving for his
services the thanks of parliament and the grand
cross of the bath. He published " Facts relating
to the Capture of Washington '" (London, 1829).
EVANS, George Henry, reformer, b. in Brom-
yard, Herefordshire, England, 25 March, 1805 ; d.
in Granville, N. J., 2 Feb., 1855. He came to this
country with his father and brother in 1820, and
was one of the earliest land-reformers in the
United States, adopting views similar to those
since held by Henry George. Among the reforms
for which he labored were the destruction of the U.
S. bank, inalienable homesteads, the transportation
of the mails on Sundays, a limitation in the right
of any person to hold lands, general bankrupt laws,
and laborers' liens. He also favored the abolition
of slavery, of laws for collecting debts, and of im-
prisonment for debt. He edited and published
"The Man," at Ithaca, N. Y., about 1822; the
" Working Man's Advocate," in New York, in
1830 ; " The Daily Sentinel," in 1837 ; and " Young
America," ni New York and Rahvvay, N. J., in
1853. — His brother, Frederick William, reform-
er, b. in Bromyard, England, 9 June, 1808; d. in
Lebanon, N. Y., 6 March, 1893, spent his boyhood on
a farm near Worcester. He says : " My maps were
the landscape of hills and valleys ; my books, trees
and plants ; my teachers, the servants, and their
masters and mistresses. I graduated, and emi-
grated to America in 1820. Then I taught myself
how to read, and began the study of history. I
learned how to think, observe, and reason upon
theology and the social and governmental organi-
zation of mankind, until I became a materialist, a
socialist, a land-reformer, and an infidel to all the
popular church and state religions of Christen-
dom." On his arrival in New York his father ap-
prenticed him to a hatter, and it was in the uiter-
vals of his work that he thus educated himself.
After travelling on foot to the west, then on rafts
and boats down the Mississijipi to New Orleans, he
made a short visit to England, and on his return
joined the Shakers at Mount Lebanon, N. Y., on 3
June, 1830. He was appointed assistant elder in
the " North Family " in 1838, and in 1858 became
first elder of thi'ee " families." He has invented a
simple method of warming the rooms of the com-
munity uniformly. Elder Evans lectured fre-
quently, contributed to seventy different publica-
tions, and in 1873-'5 edited and published, with
Antoinette Doolittle, a periodical entitled " The
Shaker and Shakeress." His teachings have con-
siderably modified the dogmas of his sect. He
published " Compendium of Principles, Rules,
Doctrines, and Government of Shakei's," with biog-
raphies of Ann Lee and others " (New York, 1859) :
" Autobiography of a Shaker " and " Tests of Di-
vine Revelation " (1869) ; " Shaker Communism "
(London, 1871) ; " Religious Communism," a lect-
ure delivered in St. George's hall, London (1872) ;
and "Second Appearing of Christ " (1873).
EVANS, Henry G., journalist, b. in 1812; d. in
Brooklyn, N. Y., 14 Aug., 1869. He was co-editor
and proprietor of the New York " Evening Mirror "
almost from the beginning of its career to its close,
and was one of the best writers for the daily press
in the city. About fifteen years previous to his
death the publication of the "Mirror" was discon-
tinued, and he engaged in mercantile business, in
which he maintained a high reputation.
EVANS, Hugh Davey, author, b. in Baltimore,
Md., 26 April, 1792 ; d. there, 16 July, 1868. He
left school at thirteen years of age on account of
his health, and in 1810 began to study law. He
was admitted to practice in Baltimore on 19 April,
1815, took rank, while yet a young man, with
Pinckney, Wirt, Reverdy Johnson, and the other
leaders of the Maryland bar, and afterward at-
tained eminence as a constitutional lawyer. He
was prominent for many years in the councils of
the Protestant Episcopal church, and in 1843-'56
edited " The True Catholic," a high-church peri-
odical. He was also connected with the Philadel-
phia " Register " in 1853, contributing to it
" Thoughts on Current Events," with the New
York '* Churchman " in 1854-'6, and the New York
" Church Monthly " in 1857-'8, and in the two
years last mentioned edited the '• Monitor," a
weekly paper published in Baltimore. He was a
prominent member of the Maryland colonization
society, and prepared a code of laws for the Mary-
land colony in Liberia (Baltimore, 1847). He re-
ceived the degree of LL. D. from St. James's col-
lege, Maryland, in 1852, and from that time till
1864 was lecturer there on civil and ecclesiastical
law. During the civil war Mr. Evans was an
earnest supporter of the National government, and
in 1861 wrote to the London " Guardian " a letter
in defence of the arrests made in Baltimore in that
year, which attracted much attention. His pub-
lished works include " Essay on Pleading " (Balti-
more, 1827) ; " Maryland Common-Law Practice "
(1837; revised ed., 1867); "Essays to prove the
Validity of Anglican Ordinations," in reply to
Archbishop Kenrick's book on the subject (Balti-
more, 1844; second series, 2 vols., 1851); " The-
ophilus Americanus." an American adaptation, with
additions, of Canon Wordsworth's " Theophilus
Anglicanus" (Philadelphia, 1851); " Essay on the
Episcopate of the Protestant Episcopal Church in
the United States " (1855) ; and several pamphlets.
After his death appeared his "Treatise on the
Christian Doctrine' of Marriage," which he con-
sidered his best work (New York. 1870), and a me-
moir by Rev. Hall Harrison, founded on recol-
lections written by himself (Hartford, Conn., 1870).
EVANS, H. Stephen, Canadian chemist, b. in London, England, in 1830. He was graduated at the School of pharmacy in 1848, and then removed to Liverpool, where he took charge of the laboratories of his father, a wholesale druggist. In 1849 he read before the London chemical so-
