Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Evans, Lieut.-General Sir De Lacy

by Joseph Foster

Evans, Lieut.-General Sir De Lacy, g.c.b., created D.C.L. 20 June, 1855, served with the light dragoons in the Peninsular War at Toulouse, etc, lieut.-colonel in the American War 1814, at the taking of Washington, quartermaster-general at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, took part in the capture of Paris, commanded the British Legion in Spain 1835, and the 2nd division of the army in the Crimea 1854, served at the battles of the Alma and Inkermann M.P. Rye May, 1830-3, and Westminster in 8 parliaments 1833-41, and Feb., 1846-65, died 9 Jan., 1870.