Charles Harold Evelyn-White

Charles Harold Evelyn-White (12 December 1850 – 7 February 1938, Felixstowe) was an English clergyman and antiquarian.[1]

Family life

Evelyn-White married Charlotte Reid, with whom he parented Hugh Evelyn-White in 1884.[2]

Ecclesiastic career

In 1885 he was curate of St Margaret's Church, Ipswich. In 1894 he became rector of the Cambridgeshire village of Rampton, Cambridgeshire, a post he held until 1928.

Antiquarian activities

In 1885 Evelyn-White relaunched the East Anglian, an antiquarian journal which was revival of an early journal The East Anglian Notes and Queries which had been founded by Samuel Tymms in 1858 under the auspices of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology. Evelyn-White had ben involved with the Cambridge Antiquarian Society. However in 1900 he fell out with them, follwoing which he set up the Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire Archaeological Society which largely by himself.[1]

In 1930 he retired to Felixstowe, where he died at Wolsey Gardens in 1938.[1]

References
  1. "Rev Charles Harold Evelyn-White (1850-1938) - Find..." www.findagrave.com. Find a Grave. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
  2. https://library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections/collection/1482 University of Leeds Library: Special Collections: Hugh Evelyn-White (1884-1924)
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