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with him, but his wife and daughter were away in a hotel in
Barnstaple. He died at the Master's Lodgings at the age of 77 on 23 November that year. His funeral took place on 28 November 1891, with the first portion of the Burial Service said in the College Chapel on 28 November, followed by interment in a vault at
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The 1891 census shows Evans at the Master's
Lodgings in Pembroke College nine months before his death. He was now 77 and ill, with a nurse in residence, and Douglas Macleane wrote that towards the end "his failing powers curtailed his activity as Head of the college". His son Lewis spent census night
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College, Oxford, which owned the school, nearly 200 years before. Hence Evans, after nearly half a century in Oxford, was still taking an interest in his South Wales roots and old school. When he was attending to his prebendal duties at Gloucester during the Long Vacation, he could have
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Heads of Oxford colleges (unlike mere
Fellows) were allowed to marry, and on 21 February 1865 (less than one year after his appointment as Master of Pembroke), Evans (aged nearly 52) married Mary Sophia Luxmoore at Everdon Church, Northamptonshire. His bride was 29 years his junior, and her father,
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Evans was
Philipps Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford from 1843 to 1864, serving as Tutor and senior Dean of the college. In 1851, he was appointed Vicegerent, and then on 3 March 1864 he was elected Master of the College and Canon of Gloucester: this was a combined position that he held until his
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Evans was appointed Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Oxford on 5 November 1874 and was made a Doctor of Divinity by decree on 18 October 1878. He then served a four-year stint as Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1878 to 1882. During this period he granted the
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At the time of the 1881 census Evans and his family were at home in the Master's
Lodgings at Pembroke, looked after by six live-in servants. His eldest son had already left home: aged only 13, William Noble Evans was a naval cadet on board
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Evans's widow was living in Bushey, Hertfordshire at the time of the 1901 census and his daughter Mary
Beatrice Evans, who was an artist, lived with her. His son Lewis Herbert Evans was the Vicar of St John's Church, Eton by 1911.
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In 1878 Evans's name was the first in a memorandum signed by 75 old boys of
Cowbridge School urging that the endowment of the Headmaster should be increased in due proportion to the increased value of the lands bequeathed by
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death in 1891, spending time in the vacation at his canonical residence in
Gloucester. The choice of Master had hovered between Evans and another tutor called Bartholomew Price, and a wit wrote the following verse:
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who had been Vicar of Barnstaple at the time of her birth, was now Rector of Everdon and conducted the marriage. Their four children were all born in Oxford and baptised as follows at
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Evans served the City of Oxford as well as the University while head of his college, and on 9 December 1871 it was announced that he had been appointed an Oxfordshire Magistrate.
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near Pembroke College: Gilbert Luxmoore Evans (1866); William Noble Evans (27 July 1867); Mary Beatrice Evans (20 May 1869); and Lewis Herbert Evans (29 October 1870).
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and was matriculated on 22 June 1831, but he migrated to Pembroke College after they awarded him a scholarship, obtaining a Second Class in
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