Sir Hugh Evelyn, 5th Baronet (31 January 1769 – 28 August 1848) was a British baronet and naval officer.

Family background

Hugh was the youngest 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,

Sir John Evelyn, 4th Baronet 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 Fortunatus Wright, the privateer. Charles Evelyn was the only son of a ...

, his first cousin once removed, was his nearest male heir.

Cokayne, George Edward George Edward Cokayne, (29 April 1825 – 6 August 1911), was an English genealogist and long-serving herald at the College of Arms in London, who eventually rose to the rank of Clarenceux King of Arms. He wrote such authoritative and standar ...

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

Succession

Hugh Evelyn was born on 31 January 1769 at

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. He was an officer in the

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, marrying first 1815 Henrietta Harrison (born c.1778; died July 1836) and second (1836) Mary Hathaway, the widow of

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merchant James Thomas Hathaway and eldest daughter of John Kennedy of

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. He libelled the two trustees who were administering his meagre income by putting posters of their faces all over London; they took him to court and had the posters taken down. He unsuccessfully took a case to the KBD court and owed court costs of £30 which he was unable to pay; he spent 18 years of his life in prison. Sir Hugh died without issue at

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, on 28 August 1848, aged 79, and was buried on 9 September 1848, at Wotton,

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. On his death, the baronetcy became extinct. His widow, Mary, who was born at

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in 1803, died on 5 May 1883, at Eagle House, in Forest Hill, and was buried in

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References

* ''The Evelyn Family History''; Helen Evelyn, published 1915 *''The Genealogists' Magazine'', March 2015, Peter Maggs 1769 births 1848 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of Great Britain Royal Marines officers People imprisoned for debt {{GreatBritain-baronet-stub