EVANS, Henry (d.1842), of Old Town, co. Cork.

Evans, who served in the West Indies in the 1790s and was subsequently commander of the Cork sea fencibles, was a protégé of Admiral Sir Peter Parker, like whose grandson of the same name he was returned for Wexford by Richard Nevill, then aged and infirm, in 1819. The Castle described him as Nevill’s nephew; Nevill more appropriately described Evans’s brother Nathaniel as his relation.Add. 40298, f. 44. Nathaniel Evans married Nevill’s first cousin, a sister of Adm. Sir George Parker. Evans was expected to support government, as his vote with them against Tierney’s censure motion confirmed, 18 May 1819. He also joined the majority against the foreign enlistment bill, 10 June. He had opposed Catholic relief on 3 May. No speech of his is known in his first Parliament. He died 16 Sept. 1842.Gent. Mag. (1843), i. 322.