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Darwin Correspondence Project

Gowen Edward Evans

1826–97

Lawyer and newspaper manager. Born in Northamptonshire, England. BA, Lincoln College, Oxford, 1849. Entered Inner Temple in 1851; called to the bar, 1864. Wrote for the Spectator. Emigrated to Australia in 1867. Admitted to the Victoria bar. Represented Edward Wilson, the proprietor of the Melbourne Argus.

Sources

Gibbney and Smith eds. 1987

Men-at-the-bar.

Bibliography

Men-at-the-bar: Men-at-the-bar: a biographical hand-list of the members of the various inns of court, including Her Majesty’s judges, etc. By Joseph Foster. London: Reeves & Turner. 1885.

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