MR TREVOR CORRY EVANS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3384, 25 July 1927, Page 8

MR TREVOR CORRY EVANS.

The London Times contains the following notice of the death of Mr Trevor Evans: — Mr Trevor Corry Evans, a member of one of tire oldest families of Ireland, died last Thursday at Caterhaim, at the age of 77. He was a sorr of Major George Evans,’ of Ash Hill Towers, County Limerick, who was' a nephew of the. second Lord Oarbery, and bis mother was Bar bant Louisa Corry, or Abbey Yard, Ncwry, County Down, and sho was related to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland, whose name she bore. The family of Evans is of great antiquity in Wales and in Ireland; This branch of it owned Bulgaden Hall and Miltown Castle, both now in ruins, and Ash Hill Towers, which has passed out of their possession entirely, except that, as an emblem of ancient ownership, they hold the keys to the family vault. Mr Evans was horn at Ash Hill Towers, and after learning agriculture and shipping in his youth, he settled 1 with his parents, who had acquired property in Oamaru, Otago, and there is still a surviving brother, George Maurice Evans, in Wellington. Mr Evans married in 1020 Carolina, widow of Mr Edward Cutten, of Tenruka, .South Canterbury, New Zealand. There has been lunch inter-marriage between the Ogilvie-Graut family and the family of Evans. The-(sixth Earl of Seafield married. Louisa Emma MauuselJ, a cousin of Mr T. C. Evans, and their son Lewis married*.her sister Georgina/ father and son thus becoming brothers-in-law. An aunt of Mr T. ,C. Evans married the Hon. James Ogilvie-Grant, afterwards ninth Earl of Seafield, and the tenth Earl married Mr Evans’ sister, Ann (Nina) Trevor Carry Evans, who was his- first cousin. Some years alter the death of the tenth Earl, in 1888, his widow returned from new Zealand to England, where she and her family were joined by her brother, who has now died. James, the elder oS the sons, became the 11th Earl, and when he fell in the Great War in 1915, the Scalielci title and estates passed t ) his only child, notv celebrating her majority, as the Countess of Seafield. At the same time the barony of Strathspey passed to- the younger nephew of Mi , T. C. Evans.