Edwyn Robert Bevan OBE, FBA (15 February 1870 in

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– 18 October 1943 in London) was a versatile British philosopher and historian of the

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world.

Life

Edwyn Robert Bevan was the fourteenth of sixteen children of

Robert Cooper Lee Bevan Robert Cooper Lee Bevan (8 February 180922 July 1890) was a British banker. He served as a senior partner of Barclays Bank. Early life Robert Cooper Lee Bevan was born on 8 February 1809 at Hale End, Walthamstow. He was the eldest son of fellow ...

, a partner in

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, and his second wife Emma Frances Shuttleworth, daughter of Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth,

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. He was educated at Monkton Combe School and at

New College, Oxford New College is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Founded in 1379 by William of Wykeham in conjunction with Winchester College as its feeder school, New College is one of the oldest colleges at th ...

. Bevan held an academic position at

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as Lecturer in Hellenistic History and Literature. The Arabist Anthony Ashley Bevan was his brother, the conspiracy theorist

Nesta Helen Webster Nesta Helen Webster (née Bevan, 24 August 1876 – 16 May 1960) was an English author who promoted Antisemitic canard, antisemitic canards and revived theories about the Illuminati.Who are the Illuminati? ''Independent on Sunday'' (London) ...

was his youngest sister and the artist

Robert Polhill Bevan Robert Polhill Bevan (5 August 1865 – 8 July 1925) was a British painter, draughtsman and lithographer. He was a founding member of the Camden Town Group, the London Group, and the Cumberland Market Group. Early life He was born in Bruns ...

a cousin. He married Mary Waldegrave, daughter of

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in 1896 and they had two daughters, Christina (born March 1897, died 1981) and Anne (born March 1898,died 1983). Bevan's name is given in a list of staff at

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, Britain's War Propaganda Bureau, in a report from February 1916. His role was "Reader & Reporter German papers" Bevan was awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Andrews in 1922 and an honorary D.Litt. from

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in 1923. In 1942 he became a Fellow of the

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Autochromes of Christina

A series of early colour photographs

Mervyn O'Gorman Mervyn Joseph Pius O'Gorman (19 December 1871 – 16 March 1958) was a British electrical and aircraft engineer. After working as an electrical engineer, he was appointed Superintendent of what became the Royal Aircraft Factory at Farnborough ...

took in 1913 of Bevan's oldest daughter Christina Elizabeth Frances Bevan dressed in red were included in the ''Drawn by Light'' exhibition in 2015 by the

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and gained press and social media attention.

Works

* ''The House of Seleucus'' (1902) 2 volume
''Volume I''''Volume II''
* '' The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus'', rendered into English verse 1902
''Jerusalem under the High Priests: Five Lectures on the Period between Nehemiah and the New Testament''
(1904)
''The Seven against Thebes''
of Aeschylus, rendered into English verse 1912
''Indian Nationalism : An Independent Estimate''
(1913)
''Stoics and Sceptics''
(1913)
''Brothers all: The War and the Race Question''
(1914)
''Peace with Empire: The Problem''
(1915)
''German War Aims''
(1917)
''The Method in the Madness: A fresh Consideration of the Case between Germany and Ourselves''
(1917)
''Ancient Mesopotamia: The Land of The Two Rivers''
(1918)
''German Social Democracy During the War''
1918)
''The German Empire of Central Africa as the Basis of a New German World Policy''
(1918) with Emil Zimmermann
''Hellenism and Christianity''
(1921)
''The Hellenistic Age''
(1923) with

J. B. Bury John Bagnell Bury (; 16 October 1861 – 1 June 1927) was an Anglo-Irish historian, classical scholar, Medieval Roman historian and philologist. He objected to the label "Byzantinist" explicitly in the preface to the 1889 edition of his ''Lat ...

, E. A. Barber, W. W. Tarn
''The House of Ptolemy''
(1927) * ''The World of Greece and Rome'' (in Benn's Sixpenny Library) (1927) * ''Later Greek Religion'' (1927) * ''Sibyls and Seers: A Survey of Some Ancient Theories of Revelation and Inspiration'' (1928) * ''The Legacy of Israel'' (1928) editor with

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* ''Thoughts on Indian Discontents'' (1929)
''Jerusalem under the high priests: five lectures on the period between Nehemiah and the New Testament''
(1930) * ''The hope of a world to come; underlying Judaism and Christianity'' (1930) * ''The Poems of Leonidas of Tarentum'' (1931) * ''Christianity'' (1932)

Home University Library of Modern Knowledge The ''Home University Library of Modern Knowledge'' was a series of popular non-fiction books from the first half of the twentieth century that ran to over 200 volumes. The authors were eminent scholars in their fields and included Isaiah Berlin ...

* ''Our Debt to the Past'' (1932) with others * ''After Death'' (1934) with others
''Symbolism and Belief''
(1938)

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* ''Holy Images: An Inquiry Into Idolatry and Image-Worship in Ancient Paganism and in Christianity'' (1940)
''Christians in a World at War''
(1940)

References

External links

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