▶Date of birth:  1860        Place of birth: Wilsford, Wiltshire

▶Father:  Elwin John Evered       Mother:  Louisa Courtenay Peach

▶Spouse(s): Mabel Frances Frost     Date(s) of marriage: 19 September 1899      Place(s) of marriage: All Saints, Margaret Street, London

▶Occupation: Clergyman (Anglican)

▶Lifestory: Ranulph Hamilton Evered lived in Pittville as a young curate, though h e spent much of his working life in Gloucester. He was born in Wilsford, Wiltshire, in 1860, the second and younger son of the Revd. Elwin Everard John Evered, Curate of Wilsford, Wiltshire, and his wife Louisa Courtenay (née Peach). At the age of ten he attended St John’s College, Hurstpierpoint, and matriculated at St Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1879, BA 1884, MA 1886; in 1881 he lived with his mother and family at Gloucester House, St Giles’, Oxford. He was ordained Deacon in 1884, and Priest (both Worcester) in 1885.

In 1884 he was licensed as Curate of Church Lench, Worcestershire, and in the following year as Curate of All Saints, Cheltenham; he remained in Cheltenham until 1887, when he lived at 1 Selkirk Parade (now 71 Prestbury Road), Pittville. From Cheltenham he moved to become Curate of Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire for a year.

Returning to Gloucestershire, he was installed as a Minor Canon of Gloucester Cathedral 1888-95 (Precentor 1894-95). Towards the end of this time he was appointed Chaplain to the County Infirmary in Gloucester 1894-5 before becoming Vicar of Newland with Redbrook, Gloucestershire from 1895. In 1899 he married Mabel Frances, eldest daughter of Charles Evitt Frost, of the Indian Civil Service, of the Warren, Lydney, Gloucestershire, at All Saints, Margaret Street, London, a noted Anglo-Catholic church; the couple had two sons and one daughter.

Evered resigned the living of Newland in 1922 and in 1923 was appointed Rector of Shenley, Buckinghamshire, and in 1925 was also working in the diocese of Oxford. He retired from Shenley after eight years in 1930, moving to Burnham-on-Sea, where his wife died in 1931. Evered died in 1932 at 4 Chesterfield Place, Clifton, Bristol, while living at Channel View, Burnham in Somerset; his estate at death was sworn at just over £2,230.

▶Moved to Pittville from: presumably elsewhere in Cheltenham       Moved from Pittville to: Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent

▶Date of death:  28 April 1932      Place of death: Burnham, Somerset

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▶Notes: In the Gloucester Journal, 16 November 1907, p. 8, is an article on All Saints church, Cheltenham and a photograph of RHE.       ID: 8238

Contributor(s):  John Simpson/Alan Munden