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the Downs. Since 1820 Lieut. Etough has not, we believe, been afloat. Agents – Case and Loudonsack.
EVANCE. (Commander, 1818. f-p., 14; h-p.,27.)
William Devereux Evance is son of Mr. Evance, of the firm of Suttaby, Evance, and Co., Booksellers, of Stationers’ Court, Fleet Street, London.
This officer entered the Navy, 12 Sept. 1806, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Emulous brig, Capt. Gustavus Stupart, and afterwards sailed for the West Indies in the Franchise 36, Capt. Chas. Dashwood. During the three last years of the war he served, as Midshipman and Acting-Lieutenant, in the Cumberland 74, Capts. Robt. Clephane and Robt. Waller Otway, Prince of Wales 98, Capt. John Erskine Douglas, Venerable 74, Capt. David Milne, and Heron 18, Capt. Wm. M‘Culloch, on the Mediterranean, Home, and West India stations. Being confirmed, while in the latter ship, by commission dated 3 Sept. 1814, Mr. Evance subsequently joined – 11 Sept. 1815, the Tigris 36, Capt. Robt. Henderson – and, 7 Nov. 1816, the Conqueror 74, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Robt. Plampin at the Cape of Good Hope. He there assumed command, 15 Aug. 1818, of the Redpole sloop; but, since the following year, appears to have been on half-pay.
Commander Evance is the senior officer of his rank on the list of 1818. He married, 19 April, 1825, Harriet, youngest daughter of Job Dyer, Esq., of Chigwell, co. Essex, by whom he has issue eight children.
EVANS. (Captain, 1838. f-p., 18; h-p., 18.)
George Evans entered the Royal Naval College 30 Sept. 1811; and embarked, 19 Nov. 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Mulgrave 74, Capt. Thos. Jas. Maling, of which ship, then in the Mediterranean, he became Midshipman 17 Nov. 1813. From Nov. 1814 until the receipt of his first commission, 1 Jan. 1821, he served as Master’s Mate and Admiralty-Midshipman, on the West India, Home, East India, and South American stations, in the Brazen 18, Capt. Jas. Stirling, Ganymede, Amphion, and Magicienne frigates, commanded by Capt. John Brett Purvis, and Owen Glendower 42, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer. On 12 April, 1823, he rejoined the latter officer in the Naiad 46, and in that ship he again sailed for the Mediterranean. While there Mr. Evans contributed to the defeat, 31 Jan. 1824, of the Tripoli Algerine corvette, of 18 guns and 100 men; and on the night of 23 May following he commanded the boats, in conjunction with Lieuts. Michael Quin and Thos. Dilke, at the brilliant destruction of a 16-gun brig moored in a position of extraordinary strength alongside the walls of the fortress of Bona, in which was a garrison of 400 soldiers, who, from cannon and musket, kept up a tremendous fire almost perpendicularly on the deck. The subject of this sketch, who assumed charge, 4 Dec. 1827, of the Lightning steamer, attained the rank of Commander 2 June, 1828. He was afterwards employed, from 4 Oct. 1832 until 1835, in the Rhadamanthus steam-vessel, on the North America and West India station; but since his elevation to Post-rank, 28 June, 1838, has not been afloat.
Capt. Evans is at present Conservator of the River Mersey. He married, 8 June, 1837, Mary, daughter of Admiral John Giffard. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
EVANS. (Commander, 1841. f-p., 20; hp., 28.)
Gustavus Evans entered the Navy, 18 March 1799, as Midshipman on board the Europe, Lieut. Commander John Gardiner, on the Plymouth station; served, from Aug. 1804 to Dec. 1808, principally as Master’s Mate and Acting-Lieutenant, in the Epervier brig, under various commanders, on the West India station; and then joined, in the latter capacity, the Cherub sloop, Capt. Thos. Tudor Tucker; to which vessel, after assisting at the reduction of Martinique and Guadeloupe, he was confirmed 18 April, 1811. He at length invalided from the Cherub, then in South America, in April, 1813; and was afterwards appointed, 25 Feb. 1814 and 8 Sept. 1815, as First-Lieutenant, to the Sheldrake 14, and Mosquito 10, employed on the Home and Cape of Good Hope stations. The Mosquito was paid off in Nov. 1818; and Mr. Evans, who had not since been afloat, was promoted to the rank of Commander 23 Nov. 1841.
He is married, and has issue.
EVANS. (Lieutenant, 1811. f-p., 9; h-p., 35.)
John Evans (a), born 2 Dec. 1786 or 7, is son of John Evans, Esq., of Dilwyn, co. Hereford, and of the Rock and Vermont, in Jamaica, by a daughter of John Tyler, Esq., of Dilwyn House, who was grand-niece of Bishop John Tyler, and a relative of Dr. Southey, the Poet-Laureate.
This officer entered the Navy, early in 1803, as a Volunteer, on board the Leviathan 74, Capt. Rich. Dalling Dunn, bearing the flag of Sir John Thos. Duckworth at Jamaica, where, in the course of the same year, he successively joined the Trent 36, Capt. Jas. Katon, and Désirée 36, Capts. Chas. Bayne Hodgson Ross and Henry Whitby. While in the latter ship he was present at the blockade of Cape François, the reduction of Port Dauphin, where two forts and a 28-gun frigate, La Sagesse, were taken from the enemy, and the surrender of the French squadron with the remains of General Rochambeau’s army from Cape Francois on board; and he was also frequently employed with the boats on cutting-out affairs of a very hazardous description. In June, 1805, Mr. Evans accompanied Capt. Whitby into the Centaur 74, and after an intermediate attachment to various other vessels, was taken prisoner, while a passenger, in 1807, on board the armed-brig Charles, by a French privateer. La Vengeance of overwhelming force, to whom, however, the former vessel did not surrender until, in the course of a spirited action of four hours and a half, fought within hail, she had expended every shot, cartridge, and wad. On being soon afterwards exchanged, Mr. Evans became attached, for short periods, to the Drake and Wolf sloops, Capts. John Fleming and Wm. Sumner Hall, and then joined the Bacchante 20, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield, with whom he continued to serve, latterly as Acting-Lieutenant of the Daedalus 32, until Sept. 1810. In the Wolf and Bacchante, besides participating in several desperate actions with Spanish flotillas, he assisted in taking, after a contest of half an hour, Le Griffon French national brig, of 16 guns and 105 men; and, in the Daedalus, he contributed to the reduction, towards the close of 1808, of the town of Samana, in St. Domingo. In 1810-11 Mr. Evans was employed, on the North American station, in the Belvidera 38, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Herbert Sawyer, and Atalante and Morgiana sloops, Capts. Fred. Hickey and David Scott. He was confirmed while in the latter vessel, by commission dated 16 Nov. 1811; but, in the following Feb., was compelled to invalid in consequence of a severe liver complaint, from the effects of which he still suffers. He has not since been employed.
Lieut. Evans, during his servitude afloat, was frequently invested with the duties of Prize Master; and he appears, in almost every ship, to have been exposed to a succession of the most furious hurricanes, which frequently carried away every mast, and threatened, in fact, destruction to all on board. He is married, and has one daughter living. His son, John, a naval cadet, who had recently returned from a voyage round the world, died in Feb. 1843.
EVANS. (Lieutenant, 1826. f-p., 10; h-p., 18.)
Nicholas Evans entered the Royal Naval College 5 Aug. 1819; and embarked, in March, 1820, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Grasshopper 18, Capts. Dan. Buchan and Jas. Bradley; under whom, and Capts. Houston Stewart and Fred. Warren, of
