Evan Henry Llewellyn

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.

Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn JP DL
Member of Parliament for North Somerset
In office 1895–1906
Preceded by	Courtenay Warner
Succeeded by	William Henry Bateman Hope
In office 1885–1892
Preceded by	New constituency
Succeeded by	Courtenay Warner
Personal details
Born	(1847-02-25)25 February 1847
Died	27 February 1914(1914-02-27) (aged 67)
Spouse	Mary Blanche Somers ​ ​ (m. 1868; died 1900)​
Relations	William Somers Llewellyn (grandson)
Parent(s)	Llewellyn Llewellyn Eliza William Strick
Education	Rugby School

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 (both children 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 until the 1906 general election.^[5]

He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset.^[6][7]

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.^[8]
• Owen John Llewellyn (1870–1943), who married Anna Elizabeth Mann, daughter of William John Mann of Highfield, Trowbridge.^[9]
• Sir Hoel Llewellyn (1871–1945), who also served with distinction in the Second Boer War;^[10] 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.^[11]
• Arthur Llewellyn (1873–1920), who Meriel Byrne, a daughter of F.W. Byrne, in 1895.^[9]
• Mary Mercy Llewellyn (1884–1956), who married Maj. Antony Hubert Gibbs, son of Antony Gibbs, in 1899.^[12]

Llewellyn's wife died in 1900 and he died of heart failure after a severe attack of bronchitis on 27 February 1914.^[13]

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.^[14]