George Essex Evans

George Essex Evans was an Australian poet.

Evans was born in London onJune 1863. Both his parents were Welsh. Evanss father, John Evans, Q.C., died in 1864 when Evans was only a few months old. John Evans, who was the Treasurer of the Inner Temple and a member of the House of Commons, left his family a fortune of 60,000 pounds. The fortune did not last very long. Consequently, Evans was raised and educated by his mother Mary Ann , who was one of the Bowens of Llwynwair, an old Welsh family. Mary Ann was an educated woman, fluent in both Latin and Greek. The family lived in Haverfordwest in Pembrokeshire where Evans attended Haverfordwest Grammar School and then the St. James Collegiate School of Jersey.

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