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Silvanus Bevan (a.k.a. Silvanus Bevan III) (3 October 1743 – 25 January 1830) was a British
Robert Proud, Pennsylvania’s First Historian
, in ''Pennsylvania History'', Vol. XIII, No. 2, April 1946. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Free Library of Pennsylvania, 1946, p. 90 (retrieved online August 4, 2018).
On 10 April 1769, he married Isabella Wakefield (1752–1769), the daughter of Edward and Isabella Wakefield, from an old Westmorland Quaker family. She died of fever on 17 November 1769, aged 17.
On 23 September 1773, Bevan married Louisa Kendall (1748–1838), the daughter of Henry Kendall, a banker, of Lincoln's Inn Fields. They had seven sons. On marrying a non-Quaker, he was expelled from the Society of Friends. In 1783 he bought
banker
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.
Early life
He was born on 3 October 1743 in Plough CourtPharmacy
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, Lombard Street, London
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, the son of Timothy Bevan
Sir Timothy Hugh Bevan (24 May 1927 – 11 February 2016) was a British lawyer and heir to a banking dynasty. He was the chairman of Barclays Bank from 1981 to 1987.
Early life
Born in May 1927, the younger brother of Robert Francis Bevan (who ...
(1704–1786) and his wife Elizabeth Barclay (1714–1745). His father hired the English educator, historian, and Quaker Robert Proud to tutor Silvanus and his brother.Powell, J. H. Robert Proud, Pennsylvania’s First Historian
, in ''Pennsylvania History'', Vol. XIII, No. 2, April 1946. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Free Library of Pennsylvania, 1946, p. 90 (retrieved online August 4, 2018).
Career
In 1767, he joined his uncle James Barclay, and in 1776, their firm became "Barclay, Bevan and Bening". He was a sleeping partner in the Barclay and Perkins brewery ( Anchor Brewery) at Southwark.Personal life
On 10 April 1769, he married Isabella Wakefield (1752–1769), the daughter of Edward and Isabella Wakefield, from an old Westmorland Quaker family. She died of fever on 17 November 1769, aged 17.
On 23 September 1773, Bevan married Louisa Kendall (1748–1838), the daughter of Henry Kendall, a banker, of Lincoln's Inn Fields. They had seven sons. On marrying a non-Quaker, he was expelled from the Society of Friends. In 1783 he bought Swallowfield Park
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in Berkshire
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, from John Dodd for £20,000, and then sold the house in about 1788. In 1789 he bought Riddlesworth Hall. In 1814 he moved to Fosbury House, Hungerford, Wiltshire. He also had houses at 31 Gloucester Place
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, London and Collingwood House, 127 Marine Parade, Brighton.
Silvanus and Louisa Bevan had seven children:
* David Bevan (1774–1846)., married Favell Bourke Lee (1780–1841)
* Henry Bevan (1776–1860), married Harriet Droz (1783–1852).
* Rev. Frederick Stephen Bevan (1779–1859), married Ann Elizabeth Buxton (1782–1848).
* Charles Bevan (1781–1832), married Mary Johnstone (1789–1854).
* Rev. George Bevan (1782–1819), married Anne Buchanan (1782–1831).
* Robert Bevan (1784–1854), married Mary Peele Taylor (1786–1853).
* Richard Bevan (1788–1870), married Charlotte Hunter (1801–1835) then Sarah Dewar (−1883). He was a banker based in Brighton
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Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze Age Britain, Bronze Age, R ...
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Death
He died in 1830.References
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