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EVANCE —EVANS. the Downs. Since 1820 Lieut. Etough has not, we believe, been afloat. – Case and Loudonsack.

 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 brig, Capt. Gustavus Stupart, and afterwards sailed for the West Indies in the  36, Capt. Chas. Dashwood. During the three last years of the war he served, as Midshipman and Acting-Lieutenant, in the 74, Capts. Robt. Clephane and Robt. Waller Otway, 98, Capt. John Erskine Douglas,  74, Capt. David Milne, and  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 36, Capt. Robt. Henderson – and, 7 Nov. 1816, the 74, as Flag-Lieutenant to Rear-Admiral Robt. Plampin at the Cape of Good Hope. He there assumed command, 15 Aug. 1818, of the 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. 

entered the Royal Naval College 30 Sept. 1811; and embarked, 19 Nov. 1812, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 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 18, Capt. Jas. Stirling,, , and frigates, commanded by Capt. John Brett Purvis, and  42, Capt. Hon. Robt. Cavendish Spencer. On 12 April, 1823, he rejoined the latter officer in the 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 steamer, attained the rank of Commander 2 June, 1828. He was afterwards employed, from 4 Oct. 1832 until 1835, in the 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. – Hallett and Robinson.

 EVANS. 

entered the Navy, 18 March 1799, as Midshipman on board the, 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 brig, under various commanders, on the West India station; and then joined, in the latter capacity, the  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, then in South America, in April, 1813; and was afterwards appointed, 25 Feb. 1814 and 8 Sept. 1815, as First-Lieutenant, to the 14, and  10, employed on the Home and Cape of Good Hope stations. The 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. 

(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 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 36, Capt. Jas. Katon, and 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 74, and after an intermediate attachment to various other vessels, was taken prisoner, while a passenger, in 1807, on board the armed-brig, 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 and  sloops, Capts. John Fleming and Wm. Sumner Hall, and then joined the 20, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield, with whom he continued to serve, latterly as Acting-Lieutenant of the 32, until Sept. 1810. In the and, 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 , 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 38, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Herbert Sawyer, and  and  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. 

entered the Royal Naval College 5 Aug. 1819; and embarked, in March, 1820, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 18, Capts. Dan. Buchan and Jas. Bradley; under whom, and Capts. Houston Stewart and Fred. Warren, of