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Adm. pens. (age 17) at PEMBROKE, June 21, 1821. S. [and h.] of John, mercer, of South Lambeth, Surrey. B. 1803, at Newington, Surrey. School, Charterhouse. ' Matric. Michs. 1821; Scholar; B.A. 1825; M.A. 1828. Ord. deacon (Winchester) 1827; priest, 1828; P.C. of St James's, Bermondsey, May 28, 1829-June, 1840. Deputy Commissary for Surrey and Judge of Commissary Court. Assistant Secretary, S.P.C.K., 1840-2; Secretary, 1842-79. Acting Chaplain of the Tower of London. Preb. of St Paul's Cathedral, 1869-79. Died May 21, 1879, at Wimpole Street, London. Buried at Maidenhead. G. Mag. 1852, II. 320, however, gives a John Evans, B.A., 1825, from Pembroke College, Cambridge as dying, aged 70 (sic), July 22, 1852; he was P.C. of Llangwhadie and Tydweiliog, Carm.: clearly a mistake. (Boase, v. 247; List of Carthus.; Crockford; The Guardian, 1879, XXXIV. 740 and 836.)