Timothy Bevan (apothecary)

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Timothy Bevan
Born1704
Died1786
Occupation(s)Apothecary, pharmacist
SpouseElizabeth Barclay
Children Silvanus Bevan
Joseph Gurney Bevan
Parent(s) Silvanus Bevan
Jane Phillips
Relatives Silvanus Bevan (brother)
David Bevan (grandson)
Robert Cooper Lee Bevan (great-grandson)

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

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Early life

Timothy Bevan was born in 1704. [1] He was the son of Silvanus Bevan (1661–1727). [1] He was the younger brother of Silvanus Bevan FRS (1691–1765). [1] [2]

Career

Bevan was an apothecary and pharmacist. [1] With his brother, he had a shop at the Plough Court on Lombard Street, London. [2]

Personal life

He married Elizabeth Barclay (1714–1745). [1] Their son Silvanus Bevan (1743–1830) was a British banker. [1] Their son Joseph Gurney Bevan (1753–1814) was a writer of Quaker apologetical works. [1]

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 (also known as the Pennsylvania Colony). [3]

Death

He died in 1786. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "More about the Bevans". Regency Town House. Archived from the original on 5 March 2012. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 Myers, Joanna Shaw (Fall 1991). "Did Royal Friendship Alter Quaker Influence on English History?". Quaker History. 80 (2): 100–107. doi:10.1353/qkh.1991.0001. JSTOR   41947734. S2CID   162385693.
  3. 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).