Edwyn Bevan

Edwyn Robert Bevan was the fourteenth of sixteen children of Robert Cooper Lee Bevan, a partner in Barclays Bank, and his second wife Emma Frances Shuttleworth, daughter of Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth, Bishop of Chichester. He was educated at Monkton Combe School and at New College, Oxford.{{cite book |title=Monkton Combe School Register 1868-1964 |date=1965 |publisher=Monkton Combe School |location=Bath |edition=38th }}

Bevan held an academic position at King's College London as Lecturer in Hellenistic History and Literature.{{cite web |url=https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/about/hist/peop.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110506203443/https://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/classics/about/hist/peop.aspx |archive-date=2011-05-06 |title=King's College London - People}} The Arabist Anthony Ashley Bevan was his brother, the conspiracy theorist Nesta Helen Webster was his youngest sister and the artist Robert Polhill Bevan a cousin.

He married Mary Waldegrave, daughter of Granville Waldegrave, 3rd Baron Radstock in 1896 and they had two daughters, Christina (born March 1897, died 1981) and Anne (born March 1898,died 1983).{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p64307.htm|title=Person Page - 64307|work=The Peerage}}

Bevan's name is given in a list of staff at Wellington House, Britain's War Propaganda Bureau, in a report from February 1916. His role was "Reader & Reporter German papers"M. L. Saunders, "Wellington House and British propaganda during the First World War", in: The Historical Journal, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Mar., 1975), pp.119-146; see Appendix A, p.144.

Bevan was awarded an honorary doctorate from St. Andrews in 1922 and an honorary D.Litt. from Oxford in 1923. In 1942 he became a Fellow of the British Academy.

A series of early colour photographs Mervyn O'Gorman took in 1913 of Bevan's oldest daughter Christina Elizabeth Frances Bevan dressed in red{{Cite web|url=https://www.internazionale.it/opinione/giovanna-d-ascenzi/2015/06/22/christina-mervin-o-gorman-foto|title=La ragazza dell'Autochrome|last=D’Ascenzi|first=Giovanna|date=2015-06-22|website=Internazionale|language=it|access-date=2020-04-15}} were included in the Drawn by Light exhibition in 2015 by the National Science and Media Museum and gained press and social media attention.{{cite web|url=https://blog.scienceandmediamuseum.org.uk/how-the-girl-in-red-from-a-1913-photo-became-a-social-media-starlet/|title=Mervyn O'Gorman's 'Christina': How the girl in red from a 1913 photo became a social media starlet|work=National Science and Media Museum|date=2015-05-20}}

• The House of Seleucus (1902) 2 volumes [https://archive.org/details/houseofseleucusv017717mbp Volume I] [https://archive.org/details/houseseleucus00bevagoog Volume II]
• The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus, rendered into English verse 1902
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=b6PiLzXr6LkC Jerusalem under the High Priests: Five Lectures on the Period between Nehemiah and the New Testament] (1904){{cite journal|title=Review of Jerusalem under the High Priests: Five Lectures on the Period between Nehemiah and the New Testament by Edwyn Bevan|journal=The Athenaeum|issue=4044|date=April 29, 1905|page=522|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W4vs4AYf5rUC&pg=522}}
• [https://archive.org/details/sevenagainsttheb00aescuoft The Seven against Thebes] of Aeschylus, rendered into English verse 1912
• [https://archive.org/details/indiannationalis00bevaiala Indian Nationalism : An Independent Estimate] (1913)
• [https://archive.org/details/stoicsandsceptic033554mbp Stoics and Sceptics] (1913)
• [https://archive.org/details/brothersallwarra00bevarich Brothers all: The War and the Race Question] (1914)
• [https://archive.org/details/peacewithempirep00bevarich Peace with Empire: The Problem] (1915)
• [https://archive.org/details/germanwaraims00bevarich German War Aims] (1917)
• [https://archive.org/details/methodinmadnessf00bevauoft The Method in the Madness: A fresh Consideration of the Case between Germany and Ourselves] (1917)
• [https://archive.org/details/landoftworivers00bevauoft Ancient Mesopotamia: The Land of The Two Rivers] (1918)
• [https://archive.org/details/germansocialdemo00bevarich German Social Democracy During the War](1918)
• [https://archive.org/details/cu31924028741639 The German Empire of Central Africa as the Basis of a New German World Policy] (1918) with Emil Zimmermann
• [https://archive.org/details/hellenismandchri00bevauoft Hellenism and Christianity] (1921)
• [https://archive.org/details/hellenisticageas00buryuoft The Hellenistic Age] (1923) with J. B. Bury, E. A. Barber, W. W. Tarn
• [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/ The House of Ptolemy] (1927)
• The World of Greece and Rome (in Benn's Sixpenny Library) (1927)
• Later Greek Religion (1927)
• Sibyls and Seers: A Survey of Some Ancient Theories of Revelation and Inspiration (1928)
• The Legacy of Israel (1928) editor with Charles Singer
• Thoughts on Indian Discontents (1929)
• [https://archive.org/details/jerusalemunderhi00bevauoft Jerusalem under the high priests: five lectures on the period between Nehemiah and the New Testament] (1930)
• The hope of a world to come; underlying Judaism and Christianity (1930)
• The Poems of Leonidas of Tarentum (1931)
• Christianity (1932) Home University Library of Modern Knowledge
• Our Debt to the Past (1932) with others
• After Death (1934) with others
• [https://archive.org/details/symbolismandbeli029618mbp Symbolism and Belief] (1938) Gifford Lectures
• Holy Images: An Inquiry Into Idolatry and Image-Worship in Ancient Paganism and in Christianity (1940)
• [https://archive.org/details/christiansinawor013485mbp Christians in a World at War] (1940)

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• [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/Africa/Egypt/_Texts/BEVHOP/home.html The House of Ptolemy] at LacusCurtius

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