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Henry "Harry" Congreve Evans (10 December 1860 – 9 January 1899) was a journalist, editor and newspaper proprietor of South Australia. ==History== The Rev. Ephraim Evans (1825 – 6 April 1863), a Baptist minister born in Wales, married Mary Ann Wilton (1830–1858), and emigrated to South Australia around 1854. He was sent to the Reedy Creek (now Palmer) copper mine, where he ministered and taught at the local school, then in 1856 to Nuriootpa, where his workload forced him to abandon teaching. They had a son and a daughter before she died, in 1858. On 16 February 1860 he married Matilda Jane Congreve (7 August 1827 – 22 October 1886), who wrote under the pseudonym Maud(e) Jean(ne) Franc. They had two sons: Henry "Harry" Congreve Evans, born at Nuriootpa, and William James "Will" Evans (1862–1904). He died at South Rhine on Easter Monday 1863 aged 38 years. :Before her marriage Matilda and her sister Emily, who were descended from the family of William Congreve, ran a school at Mount Barker, and it was there that the first of her literary work was done. After the death of her husband she opened a boarding school for girls at Angaston to maintain the four children,〔 This reference confuses histories of brothers William and Henry.〕 but in late 1868, with help from George Fife Angas she sent the two eldest to their father's step-mother in London, where they were neither wanted nor well looked-after. As soon as he was old enough, Ebenezer started working for J. B. Maple & Co., but ill-health prompted his return to Australia in 1878, accompanied by his sister; they opened a store at Tarcowie.〔 Matilda Evans moved to Adelaide with her two sons Harry and Will, who received further tuition at John Whinham's North Adelaide Grammar School.〔 :Her brother, Henry John "Harry" Congreve (31 March 1829 – 10 July 1918) emigrated to South Australia in 1849, lived for some time in Port Lincoln and Inglewood, Victoria. In 1880 he joined the Gawler ''Standard'', then in 1885 the ''Bunyip'' when those two papers merged, resigning in 1890. He was a prolific writer, often as "H. J. C.", for other journals such as the ''Adelaide Observer''.〔Barbara Wall, ('Congreve, Henry John (Harry) (1829–1918)' ), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 2005, accessed online 14 January 2015〕 After leaving school, Harry Evans found employment with Fanning & Co., then at the age of 16 joined the ''Advertiser'', where he was noted for his stenographic skills and the speed and clarity of his longhand writing, while his energy, good humour and organising ability earned for him leadership of the literary staff. In 1888, as a result of a tour made with Frank Johnson, Minister of Education, to the Northern Territory, he produced an interesting series of articles for his paper. But he craved an outlet for his independent thought and writing, and founded the ''Quiz'', a weekly humorous and satirical publication which he founded with A. T. Chandler (1852–1941) also ex-''Advertiser'', James Hutchison, Harry Craker, and A. W. Gresswell Smith. Five years later, when Chandler left the partnership, Evans continued as sole editor. The paper was well received by the public and in 1890, by absorbing a competitor, became ''Quiz and The Lantern''. Harry Evans was the librettist of ''Immomeena'', composed by Moritz Heuzenroeder (ca.1850–1897); and ''The Mandarin'', composed by John M. Dunn (1865–1936), organist and choirmaster of St. Peter's Cathedral, and both performed at the Theatre Royal, in 1893 and 1896 respectively. He died barely two years later, and was buried at West Terrace Cemetery. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harry Congreve Evans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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