Charles Harold Evelyn-White

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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 had a son, 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

roundheads to demolish the "superstitious pictures and ornaments of churches" under the auspices of the eastern Counties
.

Evelyn-White was involved with the Cambridge Antiquarian Society until 1900, when he had a disagreement with them; he then established the Cambridgeshire & Huntingdonshire Archaeological Society largely by himself.[1]

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

References

  1. ^ a b c "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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