James Eversfield was an English landowner who served as High Sheriff of Sussex.

Life

Baptised on 1 November 1795 in the church of St Laurence in Catsfield, he was the younger son of

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, who later changed his name to Eversfield, and his wife Mary. On 15 June 1815 in the church of

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he married Mary Crew (1795–1872), daughter of Robert Hawgood Crew, Secretary to the

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, and his wife Mary Sophia Foreman, daughter of John Foreman. In 1818 his elder brother died, making him heir to the family's extensive landholdings, which included the manor and mansion of Catsfield as well as lands in Pevensey,

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, Mountfield, Battle and Bexhill. He served as High Sheriff of Sussex in 1822. Following the death of his mother in 1823, he sold the Catsfield property and moved to Denne Park outside

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. In 1825 he was one of the six proprietors of the

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at West Grinstead. Aged only 30 when he died, his will was proved on 13 Nov 1826. He and Mary had three children: *Ann Isabella Mary Eversfield (1816–1904), who in 1837 married Charles Goodwin Bethune (1810–1864), who later changed his last name to Eversfield. They had sixteen children, including the cricketer Henry Beauclerk Bethune. *Sophia Eversfield (1819–1901), who in 1845 married

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, but had no children. *Charles Gilbert Eversfield (1822–1886), who in 1848 married Isabella Pigott (1820–1902). Having no children, they adopted Lucy Barbara Vaughan (1837-1905), his mother's stepdaughter by her third marriage, and she in 1871 married Edward Maximilian Bethune (1842-1912), the eldest surviving son of her adoptive father's elder sister. His widow Mary in 1827 married Henry Tredcroft (1788-1844), becoming the mother of

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, and, widowed a second time, in 1847 married the Reverend John James Vaughan (1809-1881), son of Sir John Vaughan.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eversfield, James 1795 births 1826 deaths English landowners High Sheriffs of Sussex People from Catsfield People from Horsham District 19th-century British businesspeople