Sir John Evelyn, 4th Baronet (c. 1758 – 14 May 1833) was a British aristocrat.

Family Background

John was the eldest son of Charles Evelyn, by Philippa Wright, the daughter of

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, the

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. Charles Evelyn was the only son of another Charles Evelyn, who was the brother of

Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Baronet Sir John Evelyn, 2nd Baronet (24 August 1706 – 11 June 1767) was a British courtier and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons for 40 years from 1727 to 1767. Evelyn was born at Wotton, Surrey, the eldest son of Sir John Evelyn, 1st B ...

, and the second son of

Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet of Wotton Sir John Evelyn, 1st Baronet (1 March 1682 – July 1763) of Wotton, Surrey, was a British official and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1710. His grandfather, the diarist John Evelyn, influenced his independent attitude i ...

. The elder Charles, of

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, died aged 40 in January 1748, while the younger Charles died before 1781. As the third baronet, Sir Frederick Evelyn, had no children, John Evelyn, his first cousin once removed, was his nearest male heir.

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(1906)
Complete Baronetage
'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 17

Successions

A lieutenant in the Portsmouth division of the

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, John killed a postman and was declared "of unsound mind" on 28 July 1795; he spent the rest of his life incarcerated. He succeeded his cousin to the baronetcy on 1 April 1812, but did not inherit the estates, which were retained by the third baronet's widow until her own death when they passed to a more distant Evelyn cousin. John never married and on his death aged 75 at

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on 14 May 1833, he was succeeded by his only surviving younger brother, Hugh.

References

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