Timothy Bevan (1704–1786) was a British apothecary and pharmacist.

Early life

Timothy Bevan was born in 1704. He was the son of

Silvanus Bevan Silvanus Bevan FRS (1691–8 June 1765) was an apothecary, who founded the London firm of Allen & Hanburys. Biography Early life Silvanus Bevan was born in 1691 in Swansea, into a prosperous Welsh Quaker family. His father, who died in 1725, ...

(1661–1727). He was the younger brother of

FRS (1691–1765).

Career

Bevan was an apothecary and pharmacist. With his brother, he had a shop at the Plough Court on Lombard Street, London.

Personal life

He married Elizabeth Barclay (1714–1745). Their son

(1743–1830) was a British banker. Their son

Joseph Gurney Bevan Joseph Gurney Bevan (1753–1814) was a British Quaker, known as a writer of apologetics. Life The son of Timothy and Hannah Bevan, he was born in London on 18 February 1753. His father hired the English educator, historian, and Quaker Robert ...

(1753–1814) was a writer of Quaker apologetical works. During the mid-18th century, he hired the English educator and Quaker Robert Proud to tutor his children. Proud would later go on to write a history of the

Province of Pennsylvania The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn after receiving a land grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania ("Penn's Woods") refers to W ...

(also known as the Pennsylvania Colony).Powell, J. H. �
Robert Proud, Pennsylvania’s First Historian
��, in ''Pennsylvania History'', Vol. XIII, No. 2, April 1946. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The Free Library of Pennsylvania, 1946, p. 90 (retrieved online August 4, 2018).

Death

He died in 1786.

References

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