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382 mission. He was attorney-general of Maine in 1853, 1854, and 1856, and was for twenty-two years a trustee of Bowdoin college, which gave him the degree of LL. D. in 1847.

EVANS, Sir George De Lacy, British soldier, b. in Moig, Ireland, in 1787: d. in London.' 9 Jan.. 1870. He entered the British army in 1807, served ill India and Spain, and in 1814, when brevet lieu- tenant-colonel of the 5th West India regiment, was ordered to this country. He was at the battle of Bladensburg on 24 Aug., where two horses were killed under him, and led the small force that en- tered Washington and destroyed the public build- ings there. He also took part in Ross's expedition against Baltimore in September, and was near that officer when he fell. At New Orleans he was the only landsman that volunteered to accompany the expedition against the American sloops defending Lake Borgne. He was wounded before New Orleans on 23 Dec, 1814, and again on 8 Jan., 1815, and was sent home. He recovered just in time to join Wellington at Quatre Bras, where again two horses were killed under him. He com- manded in Spain, in 1835-'7, the British auxiliary legion, and after 1846 was member of parliament from Westminster. He served as a lieutenant- general in the Crimean war, commanding the 2d division of the English army, and was distinguished at the Alma and at Inkerman, receiving for his services the thanks of parliament and the grand cross of the bath. He published " Facts relating to the Capture of Washington '" (London, 1829).

EVANS, George Henry, reformer, b. in Brom- yard, Herefordshire, England, 25 March, 1805 ; d. in Granville, N. J., 2 Feb., 1855. He came to this country with his father and brother in 1820, and was one of the earliest land-reformers in the United States, adopting views similar to those since held by Henry George. Among the reforms for which he labored were the destruction of the U. S. bank, inalienable homesteads, the transportation of the mails on Sundays, a limitation in the right of any person to hold lands, general bankrupt laws, and laborers' liens. He also favored the abolition of slavery, of laws for collecting debts, and of im- prisonment for debt. He edited and published "The Man," at Ithaca, N. Y., about 1822; the " Working Man's Advocate," in New York, in 1830 ; " The Daily Sentinel," in 1837 ; and " Young America," ni New York and Rahvvay, N. J., in 1853. — His brother, Frederick William, reform- er, b. in Bromyard, England, 9 June, 1808; d. in Lebanon, N. Y., 6 March, 1893, spent his boyhood on a farm near Worcester. He says : " My maps were the landscape of hills and valleys ; my books, trees and plants ; my teachers, the servants, and their masters and mistresses. I graduated, and emi- grated to America in 1820. Then I taught myself how to read, and began the study of history. I learned how to think, observe, and reason upon theology and the social and governmental organi- zation of mankind, until I became a materialist, a socialist, a land-reformer, and an infidel to all the popular church and state religions of Christen- dom." On his arrival in New York his father ap- prenticed him to a hatter, and it was in the uiter- vals of his work that he thus educated himself. After travelling on foot to the west, then on rafts and boats down the Mississijipi to New Orleans, he made a short visit to England, and on his return joined the Shakers at Mount Lebanon, N. Y., on 3 June, 1830. He was appointed assistant elder in the " North Family " in 1838, and in 1858 became first elder of thi'ee " families." He has invented a simple method of warming the rooms of the com- munity uniformly. Elder Evans lectured fre- quently, contributed to seventy different publica- tions, and in 1873-'5 edited and published, with Antoinette Doolittle, a periodical entitled " The Shaker and Shakeress." His teachings have con- siderably modified the dogmas of his sect. He published " Compendium of Principles, Rules, Doctrines, and Government of Shakei's," with biog- raphies of Ann Lee and others " (New York, 1859) : " Autobiography of a Shaker " and " Tests of Di- vine Revelation " (1869) ; " Shaker Communism " (London, 1871) ; " Religious Communism," a lect- ure delivered in St. George's hall, London (1872) ; and "Second Appearing of Christ " (1873).

EVANS, Henry G., journalist, b. in 1812; d. in Brooklyn, N. Y., 14 Aug., 1869. He was co-editor and proprietor of the New York " Evening Mirror " almost from the beginning of its career to its close, and was one of the best writers for the daily press in the city. About fifteen years previous to his death the publication of the "Mirror" was discon- tinued, and he engaged in mercantile business, in which he maintained a high reputation.

EVANS, Hugh Davey, author, b. in Baltimore, Md., 26 April, 1792 ; d. there, 16 July, 1868. He left school at thirteen years of age on account of his health, and in 1810 began to study law. He was admitted to practice in Baltimore on 19 April, 1815, took rank, while yet a young man, with Pinckney, Wirt, Reverdy Johnson, and the other leaders of the Maryland bar, and afterward at- tained eminence as a constitutional lawyer. He was prominent for many years in the councils of the Protestant Episcopal church, and in 1843-'56 edited " The True Catholic," a high-church peri- odical. He was also connected with the Philadel- phia " Register " in 1853, contributing to it " Thoughts on Current Events," with the New York '* Churchman " in 1854-'6, and the New York " Church Monthly " in 1857-'8, and in the two years last mentioned edited the '• Monitor," a weekly paper published in Baltimore. He was a prominent member of the Maryland colonization society, and prepared a code of laws for the Mary- land colony in Liberia (Baltimore, 1847). He re- ceived the degree of LL. D. from St. James's col- lege, Maryland, in 1852, and from that time till 1864 was lecturer there on civil and ecclesiastical law. During the civil war Mr. Evans was an earnest supporter of the National government, and in 1861 wrote to the London " Guardian " a letter in defence of the arrests made in Baltimore in that year, which attracted much attention. His pub- lished works include " Essay on Pleading " (Balti- more, 1827) ; " Maryland Common-Law Practice " (1837; revised ed., 1867); "Essays to prove the Validity of Anglican Ordinations," in reply to Archbishop Kenrick's book on the subject (Balti- more, 1844; second series, 2 vols., 1851); " The- ophilus Americanus." an American adaptation, with additions, of Canon Wordsworth's " Theophilus Anglicanus" (Philadelphia, 1851); " Essay on the Episcopate of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States " (1855) ; and several pamphlets. After his death appeared his "Treatise on the Christian Doctrine' of Marriage," which he con- sidered his best work (New York. 1870), and a me- moir by Rev. Hall Harrison, founded on recol- lections written by himself (Hartford, Conn., 1870).

EVANS, H. Stephen, Canadian chemist, b. in London, England, in 1830. He was graduated at the School of pharmacy in 1848, and then removed to Liverpool, where he took charge of the laboratories of his father, a wholesale druggist. In 1849 he read before the London chemical so-