Charles Harold Evelyn-White (12 December 1850 – 7 February 1938,

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) was an English clergyman and

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Family life

Evelyn-White married Charlotte Reid, with whom he parented

Hugh Evelyn-White Hugh Evelyn-White (1884, Ipswich - 1924) was a classicist, egyptologist, coptologist and archaeologist. In 1907 he graduated with a degree in classics from Wadham College. He is noted for his many translations of ancient Greek works, most notable ...

in 1884.https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/collection/1482 University of Leeds Library: Special Collections: Hugh Evelyn-White (1884-1924)

Ecclesiastic career

In 1885 he was

curate A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

St Margaret's Church, Ipswich St Margaret's Church is a medieval church in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It was built in around 1300 by the Augustinian canons of the adjacent Priory of the Holy Trinity to cater for the increasing population. The building and much of the congreg ...

. In 1894 he became

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of the

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village of

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, a post he held until 1928.

Antiquarian activities

In 1885 Evelyn-White relaunched the ''

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'', an antiquarian journal which was a revival of an earlier journal, ''The East Anglian Notes and Queries'', founded by Samuel Tymms in 1858 under the auspices of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Evelyn-White was involved with the

Cambridge Antiquarian Society The Cambridge Antiquarian Society is a society dedicated to study and preservation of the archaeology, history, and architecture of Cambridgeshire, England. The society was founded in 1840. Its collections are housed in the Haddon Library on Downi ...

until 1900, when he had a disagreement with them; he then established the Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire Archaeological Society largely by himself. In 1930 he retired to Felixstowe, where he died at Wolsey Gardens in 1938.

References

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