Thomas Mullett Evans

Thomas Mullett Evans (1799-1834) and his brother, Frederick, attended boarding school at Melksham under their great-uncle, Hugh Foskett Evans (1755-1815), son of Hugh Evans of Bristol and his second wife, Anne Ward.  Thomas became a friend and co-worker of Benjamin Disraeli in London in the early 1820s when both men were working at the legal firm of Swaine & Stevens. In 1824 Disraeli spent much of the year traveling in Europe and while in Germany delivered a letter to Jane Mullett Tobin at Heidelberg announcing the July 1824 marriage of Thomas’s sister, Mary. In 1827, Thomas and his wife, the former Mary Biggs, moved to Bristol about the same time that Mary’s brother, Matthew, immigrated to Peru. Thomas Evans worked as a solicitor for Ball & Evans of Bristol, living in Clare Street and later in Charlotte Street with his wife, mother, his aunt (Sarah Evans), and his sister Jane, the latter three having moved to Bristol from Melksham upon his arrival. Thomas and his family moved to Kingsdown in 1830, joined there by Sarah Norton Biggs, who died within three months of his own death in 1834. See Jane Mullett Evans, Family Chronicle of the Descendants of Thomas Evans, of Brecon, from 1678 to 1857 (Bristol: privately printed, c. 1870).