Rev George Henry Evans, Rector, headstone at St Mary the Virgin, Woodchester
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Image: © Caroline Evans Taken: 18 Apr 2011
Headstone for the Rector responsible for the building of the "new" Church at Woodchester which was consecrated in September 1863. After 19 years of service in India where he initiated the building of several new churches. Appointed to Woodchester in 1858. In the same grave is one of his sons, Charles, who drowned aged 15 at the Henley Regatta of 1875. Also George's wife Maria [nee Farrington] who died on 6 June 1901 at age 80 in Clifton, Bristol. Biography: GEORGE HENRY EVANS was born in Tyrone, Ireland, in 1805. He graduated at Trinity College, Dublin, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1832. He entered the Company's service in 1839 and retired in 1858. He served at Madras, 1840-43; Secunderabad, 1843-49; Madras, 1849-52; and Ootacamund, 1854-58. While he was at Madras he was a much esteemed member of the corresponding committee of the C.M.S. Between 1840 and 1860 only four Chaplains were invited to join that committee, Lugard, Evans, Powell, and Alcock. The S.P.C.K. and the S.P.G. committees were less exclusive. All the clergy in the Presidency town were looked upon as members, whatever their Church views might be. It need hardly to be added that G H Evans was a [pronounced Low Churchman. When at Secunderabad he was instrumental in building a small Church at Bolarum [Church of the Holy Trinity] for the European officers and men in the Nizam's service, and another at Chudderghaut [Christ Church] for the European officials connected with the Presidency. He was referred to by Bishop Spencer in his Journal as “the exemplary Chaplain of Secunderabad”. On his return to England he became Rector of Woodchester, in the county of Gloucester, where he died in 1878. [from Penny]
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