Frances Bevan

{{Short description|British translator and poet}}

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Emma Frances Bevan (1827–1909) was a British translator and poet.

She was the daughter of Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth, Bishop of Chichester.{{cite web|title=Bevan [née Shuttleworth], (Emma) Frances (1827–1909)|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47622/?back=,31869|website=ODNB|accessdate=5 August 2015}}

She was the second wife of the banker, Robert Cooper Lee Bevan, with whom she had nine children:

• Ada Frances Bevan (15 June 1857 – 24 March 1861)
• Professor Anthony Ashley Bevan (19 May 1859 – 16 October 1933) Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic, Trinity College, Cambridge. Orientalist and one of the dozen most learned Arabists of the world.
• Hubert Lee Bevan (9 October 1860 – 29 November 1939)
• Millicent Ada Bevan (5 January 1862 – 7 August 1946)
• Gladys Mary Bevan (4 December 1864 – 15 October 1947)
• Gwendolen Bevan (11 November 1865 – 24 October 1937) who married Ion Grant Neville Keith-Falconer Lord Almoner's Professor of Arabic, Trinity College, Cambridge.
• Edwyn Robert Bevan (15 February 1870 – 18 October 1943), philosopher
• Enid Bertha Bevan (5 April 1872 – 13 June 1954)
• Nesta Helen Bevan (14 August 1875 – 7 May 1960), controversial author who revived conspiracy theories about the Illuminati