John Evelyn

John Evelyn matriculated at Balliol College Oxford in 1637 and studied at the Middle Temple in 1637 before joining the Royalist cause and travelling on the continent; he was a founder of the Royal Society and one of the most famous of the virtuosi.

TEXT RECORDS:

1664Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest-trees.

PUBLICATIONS:

The state of France. 1652.
An apology for the Royal Party. 1659.
A character of England. 1659.
The golden book of St Chrysotom, concerning the education of children. 1659.
Fumifugium. 1661.
A panegyric to Charles the Second. 1661.
Tyrannus or the mode. 1661.
Sculptura. 1662.
Sylva. 1664.
Navigation and commerce. 1674.
Numismata. A discourse of medals. 1697.
Memoirs illustrative of the life and writings of John Evelyn. 2 vols, 1818.
Miscellanous writings, ed. William Upcott. 1826.
The life of Mrs Godolphin. 1847.
Memoirs for my grandson. 1926.
London revived: considerations for its rebuilding in 1666. 1938.
Writings of John Evelyn, ed. de la Bedoyere. 1995.

PROFILE AND
ASSOCIATES:

English
Anglican

Lewes School
Balliol College Oxford
Middle Temple
Inns of Court
Fellow of the Royal Society

diplomat
antiquary
essayist
poet

John Aubrey
Rev. Richard Bentley
Abraham Cowley
John Dryden
Sir Richard Fanshawe
Samuel Pepys
Jeremy Taylor

REFERENCE:

DNB; NCBEL.

John Aubrey, Brief Lives (1669-1696) ed. Clark (1898) 1:250; Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1690-91; 1721); Biographia Britannica (1747-66) 3:1849-72; James Granger, Biographical History (1769; 1824) [portrait]; "Memoirs of John Evelyn" Universal Magazine 88 (January 1791) 41-47 [portrait]; Alexander Chalmers, General Biographical Dictionary (1812-17); John Nichols, Literary Anecdotes (1812-15); Bliss, Athenae Oxonienses (1815); William Bray, Memoirs illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn (1818); Robert Southey, "Evelyn's Memoirs" Quarterly Review 19 (1818); Robert Watt, Bibliotheca Britannica (1824); "Writings of John Evelyn" in New Monthly Magazine NS 16 (January, March 1826) 43-48, 267-72; Biographical Magazine 1 (1829) [portrait]; Robert Chambers, Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844); Allibone, Critical Dictionary of English Literature (1858-71; 1882); Mark Anthony Lower, The Worthies of Sussex: Biographical Sketches (1865); Foster, Alumni Oxon (1887-91); Moulton, Library of Literary Criticism (1901-05); Diary of John Evelyn, ed. H. S. de Beer, 6 vols (1955); Sutherland, OHEL (1969).

COMMENTARY RECORDS
for John Evelyn:

1.	1664 ca.  Abraham Cowley, in Russell, Book of Authors (1860) 82.
2.	1815  Philip Bliss, in Athenae Oxonienses (1815) 4:467n.
3.	1826  Anonymous, in Review of Evelyn, Miscellaneous Works, ed. Upcott; New Monthly Magazine NS 16 (January 1826) 43-44.
4.	1840 ca.  Bernard Barton, "John Evelyn," 1840 ca.; in Memoir, Letters, and Poems (1850) 306.
5.	1842  C. H. Timperley, in Encyclopaedia of Literary and Typographical Anecdote (1842) 2:591.

BIOGRAPHY RECORDS
for John Evelyn:

1.	1680 ca.  John Aubrey, in Brief Lives, 1669-1696; ed. Clark (1898) 1:250.
2.	1690  Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (1690-91; 1721) 2:941-42.
3.	1769  James Granger, in Biographical History of England (1769; 1824) 5:285-87.
4.	1818  Robert Southey, "Evelyn's Memoirs" Quarterly Review 19 (April 1818) 1-54.
5.	1844  Robert Chambers, in Cyclopaedia of English Literature (1844; 1850) 1:419-20.

AUTHOR AS CRITIC:
(commentary records)

1.	1680 ca.  John Aubrey:   John Evelyn to John Aubrey; in Nichols, Literary Anecdotes of the XVIII Century (1812-15) 1:455n.