Sir Hugh Evelyn...
Sir Hugh Evelyn was Thomas Smethurst's uncle. Smethurst mentioned him in a letter he wrote to The Lancet, and I researched him thinking it would add to my knowledge of his nephew. Hugh Evelyn's history added very little to what I already knew, but he proved to be such a fascinating character that I felt he needed to be written up. I was going to put him at the end of Smethurst's Luck as an appendix, but decided that he was just not sufficiently relevant. Genealogists' Magazine kindly agreed to give him an airing.
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Sir Hugh Evelyn was Thomas Smethurst's uncle. Smethurst mentioned him in a letter he wrote to The Lancet, and I researched him thinking it would add to my knowledge of his nephew. Hugh Evelyn's history added very little to what I already knew, but he proved to be such a fascinating character that I felt he needed to be written up. I was going to put him at the end of Smethurst's Luck as an appendix, but decided that he was just not sufficiently relevant. Genealogists' Magazine kindly agreed to give him an airing.
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I have had a communication from the Evelyn family, pointing out some errors in the Evelyn Family Tree contained in this article:
- “John Evelyn” [the first entry]: this should be George Evelyn, usually referred to in the family as “the Founder”, who bought the Manor of Wotton in 1579, and other adjoining Manors later. He was involved in the manufacture of gunpowder, for a time holding a Crown Monopoly; he probably did not introduce “the formula for gunpowder in England” as stated – others did that, long before George.
- “John Evelyn” [second entry]: he was the Diarist. He died in 1706 (not 1705). His father Richard was omitted; he completed the main Wotton Purchases by the late 1620s. The Diarist was his second son.
- “John Evelyn” [third entry]: he was the 1st Baronet, but he was the Diarist’s eldest grandson, not his son (also John, who predeceased the Diarist).