Robert Bevan

Robert Cooper Lee Bevan (8 February 180922 July 1890) was a British banker. He served as a senior partner of Barclays Bank.

Early life Robert Cooper Lee Bevan was born on 8 February 1809 at Hale End, Walthamstow. He was the eldest son of fellow banker David Bevan (1774–1846), and his heiress wife, Favell Bourke Lee (1780–1841). He was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford. Robert Cooper Lee Bevan, was named for the affection of his maternal grandfather, Robert Cooper Lee, Crown Solicitor-General of Jamaica, and later Barrister of London, England.

Career Bevan served as a senior partner of Barclays Bank. and the funerary monument to the Bevan family is the largest single monument in the graveyard of that church. The inscription to him reads, "He lived soberly, righteously and godly in this present world". in the town.

During the Autumn of 1849 the discussions over some kind of 'mission' for Brighton were coming to a head. It was finally decided that a Town Mission should be established based on the same principles as those of the London City Mission. Men would be employed to go from door to door and they would be paid from funds raised by subscriptions from supporters.

Land John Bateman in his Great landowners, of 1883, lists Bevan as having: In Wiltshire, 2,227 acres (worth 1,679 guineas pa); Berkshire. 956 acres (worth 807 gpa) and Hampshire. 214 acres (worth 160 gpa). At the time parts of Berkshire were islands within Wiltshire. This refers to his Fosbury estate. In Middlesex, 469 acres (worth 794 gpa) and Hertfordshire 47 acres (worth 136 gpa). (Trent Park). Total: 3,913 acres worth 3,576 guineas per annum

Death He died in 1890.