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Sebastian Evans (1830–1909) was an English journalist and political activist, known also as a man of letters and artist. ==Life== Born on 2 March 1830 at Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, he was the youngest son of Arthur Benoni Evans by his wife Anne, daughter of Captain Thomas Dickinson, R.N.; Sir John Evans was his elder brother. After early education under his father at the Market Bosworth grammar school, he won in 1849 a scholarship at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, graduating B.A. in 1853 and proceeding M.A. in 1857. On leaving the university Evans became a student at Lincoln's Inn on 29 January 1855, but was shortly appointed secretary of the Indian Reform Association, and in that capacity was the first man in England to receive news of the Indian Rebellion of 1857. That year he resigned the secretaryship and turned a talent for drawing to use, becoming manager of the art department of the glass-works of Messrs. Chance Bros. & Co., at Oldbury, near Birmingham. This position he occupied for ten years, and designed many windows, including one illustrating the Robin Hood legend for the International Exhibition of 1862.〔 While working for the Indian Reform Association, Evans had met John Bright, and at Birmingham he made the acquaintance of Joseph Chamberlain, who became a friend. In 1867 Evans left the glassworks to become editor of the ''Birmingham Daily Gazette'', a conservative newspaper. In 1868 he unsuccessfully contested Birmingham in the conservative interest in the general election and also helped to form the National Union of Conservative Associations. In the same year he took the degree of LL.D. at Cambridge.〔 In 1870 Evans left the ''Gazette'' to pursue a legal career. On 17 November 1873 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn, and joined the Oxford circuit. He built up a practice, wrote leading articles for ''The Observer'' and contributing articles and stories, mostly with a tendency to the supernatural, to ''Macmillan's'' and ''Longman's'' magazines. In 1878 he shared in the foundation of ''The People'', a weekly conservative newspaper, and edited it for the first three years of its career. When on the eve of the general election of 1886 the editor of the ''Birmingham Daily Gazette'' died suddenly, Evans resumed the editorship for a period.〔 Evans knew leading literati of the mid-Victorian period, and later was a close friend of Edward Burne-Jones, who illustrated his history of the "Graal". Towards the end of his life he retired to Abbot's Barton, Canterbury, where he died on 19 December 1909.〔 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「Sebastian Evans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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