Admitted 18 February, 1636-7.
Second son of Richard Evelyn of Wolton, Surrey, where he was born 31 Oct. 1620. On leaving Oxford, where he was educated, he resided in the Temple "till the rebellion broke out to the great terror of the nation." He speaks in his Diary of being "elected in 1642 one of the Comptrollers of the Temple-revellers," but of getting excused in order to go into the country. Being an ardent royalist he was employed in various important concerns by the king, and in the reign of Charles II. was one of the commissioners for executing the office of Privy Seal during Lord Clarendon's absence in Ireland. His chief fame, however, rests upon his writings, and especially upon his famous Diary, which throws so much light upon the history of his times.
The following are the principal of his almost innumerable writings: A Character of England, purporting to have been written by a French nobleman (1651); Fumifugium,or The Inconveniences of London Smoke Dissipated (1661); Tyrannus, or The Mode (1661); Sculptura, or The History and Art of Chalcography and Engraving on Copper (1662); Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees, to which is annexed Pomona (1664); A Parallel of Ancient Architecture with Modem (1664); Public Employment and an Active Life preferred to Solitude (1667); History of Three late Famous Impostures (1669); The History of Trade and Navigation (1674); Terra, a Discourse relating to the Culture and Improvement of the Earth (1676); Mundus Muliebris (1690); Numismata, a Discourse of Medals (1697); Acetaria, a Discourse of Sallets (1697). This was his last work. He died 27 Feb. 1705-6.
Admitted 2 May, 1672.
Son and heir of John Evelyn (q.v.) of Deptford, the famous Diarist. He was born 19 Jan. 1654-5. He was educated at Oxford. In 1675 he went to France in the train of Lord Berkeley, the Ambassador there. He was a supporter of the Prince of Orange, and helped to secure Oxford for him on his arrival in England. He was called to the Bar 9 Feb. 1682. He subsequently held the office of Chief Clerk of the Treasury, and was from 1692 to 1696 a Commissioner of Revenue in Ireland. He died in London 24 March, 1698-9. He was the author of some poems, but he is best known as the translator into English of Rapin's poem on Gardens (1673); Chassepol's History of the Grand Viziers [from the French] (1677); and Plutarch's Life of Alexander the Great (1683).
Admitted 23 March, 1820.
Second son of William Ewart, merchant, of Liverpool. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize in 1820. He was called to the Bar 26 Jan. 1827. In 1830 he was returned for Liverpool, in 1839 for Wigan, and in 1841 for Dumfries Burghs. He was an advanced Liberal, and supported the repeal of the Corn Laws. He was an advocate for the opening of public museums free to all classes, and in 1850 carried a bill for the establishment of Free Libraries. He died 23 Jan. 1869. His prize poem on The Temple of Diana at Ephesus was published in 1823, and he was the author of numerous pamphlets and political treatises on Reform, Taxation, Capital Punishment, Trade, etc.
