Evan Henry Llewellyn
Honorific prefixColonel
Honorific suffixJP DL
OfficeMember of Parliament for North Somerset
Term start1895
Term end1906
PredecessorCourtenay Warner
SuccessorWilliam Henry Bateman Hope
Term start 11885
Term end 11892
Predecessor 1New constituency
Successor 1Courtenay Warner
Birth date25 February 1847
Death date27 February 1914 (aged 67)
EducationRugby School
ParentsLlewellyn Llewellyn
Eliza William Strick
SpouseMary Blanche Somers
(m. 1868; died 1900)
RelationsWilliam Somers Llewellyn (grandson)

Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn JP DL (25 February 1847 – 27 February 1914) was a British Army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1906.

Early life

Llewellyn was born on 25 February 1847. He was the fourth son of the former Eliza William Strick (daughter of John Strick of Swansea) and Llewellyn Llewellyn of Buckland Filleigh, North Devon.[1] His sister, Rose Cecilia Llewellyn, married Adm. Sir Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee (son of Vaughan Vaughan-Lee).[2]

He was educated at Rugby School.[1]

Career

He served in the British Army, where he was an officer in the 4th (Militia) battalion of the Somersetshire Light Infantry. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, he volunteered for active service when the battalion was embodied that December, and left Southampton for South Africa on the SS Kildonan Castle in early March 1900.[3] He was later the commander of the 2nd (Central African) Battalion, King's African Rifles.[4]

Political career

In the 1885 general election, Llewellyn was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for North Somerset and held the seat until the 1892 general election. He was re-elected for the seat in the 1895 general election and held it through the 1900 election until the 1906 general election.[5] However, he had by February 1903 indicated his intent to step down at the next election,[6] which only took place three years later in 1906.

He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset.[7][8]

Personal life

In 1868, Llewellyn married Mary Blanche Somers (1847–1900), a daughter of Elizabeth Williams and Thomas Somers of Mendip-Lodge, Somerset.[1] Together, they lived at Langford Court, Somerset and were the parents of:

  • Capt. Llewellyn Thomas Evan Llewellyn (b. c. 1869), who married Maud Violet Saunderson, a daughter of Somerset Bassett Saunderson and granddaughter of Col. A. Saunderson, in 1899.[9]
  • Owen John Llewellyn (1870–1943), who married Anna Elizabeth Mann, daughter of William John Mann of Highfield, Trowbridge.[10]
  • Sir Hoel Llewellyn (1871–1945), who also served with distinction in the Second Boer War;[11] he married Winifred Florence Berens, a daughter of Alexander Augustus Berens, in 1902. After her death in 1931, he married Mary Constance Sandeman, a daughter of Walter Albert Sandeman.[12]
  • Arthur Llewellyn (1873–1920), who Meriel Byrne, a daughter of F.W. Byrne, in 1895.[10]
  • Mary Mercy Llewellyn (1884–1956), who married Maj. Antony Hubert Gibbs, son of Antony Gibbs, in 1899.[13]

Llewellyn's wife died in 1900 and he died of heart failure after a severe attack of bronchitis on 27 February 1914.[14]

Descendants

Through his son Owen, he was a grandfather of Rt. Rev. William Somers Llewellyn (1907–2001), Bishop of Lynn from 1963 to 1972.

He is the great-great-grandfather of David Cameron, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016.[15]

References

  1. ^ The House of Commons, February 1901: With Biographical Notices of Its Members, Recorded Polls ... and Statistical Analysis. Macmillan & Company. 1901. p. 84. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Little Lives of Great Men". The Illustrated War News. Illustrated London News and Sketch. 1915. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  3. ^ "The War - Embarcation of Troops". No. 36084. 8 March 1900. p. 7.
  4. ^ The London Gazette (1 January 1918) https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30450/supplement/23/data.pdf
  5. ^
  6. ^ "Election intelligence". No. 37003. 13 February 1903. p. 4.
  7. ^ Debretts Guide to the House of Commons 1886
  8. ^ No. 27745. 20 December 1904. p. 8722.
  9. ^ "WEDDING. MR L. T. E. LLEWELLEYN AND MISS M. V. SAUNDERSON.". Mercury. 28 Jan 1899. p. 7. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  10. ^ Eng, St Peter's College, Radley (1923). Register, 1847-1923. Radleian Society at the University Press. pp. 148, 164. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  11. ^ "Anglo Boer War". Archived from the original on 13 August 2007. Retrieved 22 November 2009.
  12. ^ Debrett's Baronetage, Knightage, and Companionage: In which is Included Much Information Respecting the Collateral Brances of Baronets, and the Issue of Knights. Dean & Son. 1921. p. 1667. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  13. ^ Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999, volume 1, page 51.
  14. ^ "DEATH OF COL. E. H. LLEWELLYN. SOMERSET'S GREAT LOSS.". Evening Post. 28 Feb 1914. p. 7. Retrieved 30 May 2024.
  15. ^ "Rt Hon David William Donald Cameron MP". Cracroft's Peerage. Retrieved 1 October 2017.