John Evans-Freke, 6th Baron Carbery (11 November 1765 – 12 May 1845), known as Sir John Evans-Freke, 2nd Baronet between 1777 and 1807, was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer. He was the son of Sir John Freke, 1st Baronet. In 1777 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy. He served in the

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as the

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for Donegal Borough between 1783 and 1790. He then represented

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from 1790 to 1800. On 4 March 1807 he succeeded his first cousin once removed, John Evans, as

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, and in 1824 was elected to the

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as an Irish representative peer.''The peerage of the British empire as at present existing''
(1845), p.97 (Retrieved 2 June 2016). On 25 January 1783 he married his cousin, Lady Catherine Charlotte Gore, the third daughter of

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. He died without surviving male issue, and was succeeded in his titles by his nephew, George Evans-Freke.

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