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Adm. pens. at ST JOHN'S, Dec. 27 1823. S. of [David] Evans, surgeon, of Belper, Derbs. B. 1805. School, Manchester. Scholar, 1823; matric. Michs. 1824; B.A. (3rd Wrangler, 1828; Class. Trip., 1st Class) 1828; M.A. 1831. Fellow, 1830-9. Proctor, 1837-8. Ord. deacon (Rochester, Litt. dim. from Ely) Feb. 2, 1833; priest, Feb. 16, 1834. Head Master of Sedbergh School, Yorks., 1838-61; retired to Belper. Married Kate, dau. of Leonard Pickering, Esq., of Winterbourne Abbas, Dorset, July 19, 1838. Author of a work on Newton's Principia. Lived latterly at 38, Hoghton Street, Southport, Lancs. Died there May 26, 1880. Brother of George F. (1828); father of John D. (1858) and Leonard H. (1866). (Boase, v. 248; Manchester Sch. Reg.; Sedbergh Sch. Reg.; Foster, Index Eccles.; Crockford; Scott, MSS.)