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John Evelyn, diarist and writer

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John Evelyn (31 October 1620 â€" 27 February 1706) was an English writer, gardener and diarist.

Evelyn's diaries or Memoirs are largely contemporaneous with those of the other noted diarist of the time, Samuel Pepys, and cast considerable light on the art, culture and politics of the time (he witnessed the deaths of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell, the last Great Plague of London, and the Great Fire of London in 1666). Over the years, Evelyn’s Diary has been over-shadowed by Pepys's chronicles of 17th-century life.[1] Evelyn and Pepys corresponded frequently and much of this correspondence has been preserved.

Born into a family whose wealth was largely founded on gunpowder production, John Evelyn was born in Wotton, Surrey, and grew up in the Sussex town of Lewes. He was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and at the Middle Temple. While in London, he witnessed important events such as the execution of Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford. Having briefly joined the Royalist army, he went abroad to avoid further involvement in the English Civil War. He travelled in Italy, attending anatomy lectures in Padua in 1646 and sending the Evelyn Tables back to London. In 1644, Evelyn visited the Venerable English College at Rome, where Catholic priests were trained for service in England.

He married Mary Browne, daughter of Sir Richard Browne the British ambassador in Paris in 1647.[2]

In 1652, Evelyn and his wife settled in Deptford (now in south-east London). Their house, Sayes Court (adjacent to the naval dockyard), was purchased by Evelyn from his father-in-law Sir Richard Browne in 1653 and Evelyn soon began to transform the gardens. In 1671, he encountered master wood-worker Grinling Gibbons (who was renting a cottage on the Sayes Court estate) and introduced him to Sir Christopher Wren. There is now an electoral ward called Evelyn in the Deptford area of the London Borough of Lewisham.

It was after the Restoration that Evelyn's career really took off. In 1660, Evelyn was a member of the group that founded the Royal Society. The following year, he wrote the Fumifugium (or The Inconveniencie of the Aer and Smoak of London Dissipated), the first book written on the growing air pollution problem in London.

He was known for his knowledge of trees, and his treatise Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest Trees (1664) was written as an encouragement to landowners to plant trees to provide timber for England's burgeoning navy. Further editions appeared in his lifetime (1670 and 1679), with the fourth edition (1706) appearing just after his death and featuring the engraving of Evelyn shown on this page even though it had been made more than 50 years prior by Robert Nanteuil in 1651 in Paris. Various other editions appeared in the 18th and 19th centuries and feature an inaccurate portrait of Evelyn made by Francesco Bartolozzi.

During the Second Anglo-Dutch War, beginning 28 October 1664, Evelyn served as one of four Commissioners for taking Care of Sick and Wounded Seamen and for the Care and Treatment of Prisoners of War. (The others were Sir William D'Oyly, Sir Thomas Clifford and Col. Bullen Reymes.)

Following the Great Fire in 1666, closely described in his diaries, Evelyn presented one of several plans (Christopher Wren produced another) for the rebuilding of London, all of which were roundly ignored by Charles II. He took an interest in the rebuilding of St Paul's Cathedral by Wren (with Gibbons' artistry a notable addition). Evelyn's interest in gardens even led him to design pleasure gardens, such as those at Euston Hall.

Evelyn was a prolific author and produced books on subjects as diverse as theology, numismatics, politics, horticulture, architecture and vegetarianism, and he cultivated links with contemporaries across the spectrum of Stuart political and cultural life. Like Pepys, Evelyn was a lifelong bibliophile, and by his death his library is known to have comprised 3,859 books and 822 pamphlets. Many were uniformly bound in a French taste and bear his motto Omnia explorate; meliora retinete ("explore everything; keep the best") from I Thessalonians 5, 21.

His daughter Maria Evelyn (1665â€"1685) is sometimes acknowledged as the pseudonymous author of the book Mundus Muliebris of 1690. Mundus Muliebris: or, The Ladies Dressing Room Unlock'd and Her Toilette Spread. In Burlesque. Together with the Fop-Dictionary, Compiled for the Use of the Fair Sex is a satirical guide in verse to Francophile fashion and terminology, and its authorship is often jointly credited to John Evelyn, who seems to have edited the work for press after his daughter's death.

In 1694 Evelyn moved back to Wotton, Surrey because his elder brother George had no living sons available to inherit the estate. Evelyn's own son John ii (1655-99) and grandson John iii (1682â€"1763) later Sir John Evelyn, bart, were the only hope for Wotton staying in the family. Sayes Court was made available for rent. Its most notable tenant was Russian tsar Peter the Great who lived there for three months in 1698 (and did great damage to both house and grounds). The house no longer exists, but a public park of the same name can be found off Evelyn Street.

John and Mary Evelyn had eight children: Richard (1652â€"8), John Standsfield (1653â€"4), John (1655â€"99), George (1657â€"8), Richard ii (1664), Mary (1665â€"85), Elizabeth (1667â€"85) and Susanna (1669â€"1754). Only Susanna outlived her parents.

Evelyn died in 1706 at his house in Dover Street, London. His wife Mary died three years later. Both are buried in the Evelyn Chapel in St John's Church at Wotton. In 1992 their skulls were stolen by persons unknown who hacked into the stone sarcophagi on the chapel floor and tore open the coffins. They have not been recovered.

Evelyn's epitaph (original spelling) reads:

Here lies the Body of JOHN EVELYN Esq of this place, second son of RICHARD EVELYN Esq who having served the Publick in several employments of which that Commissioner of the Privy Seal in the reign of King James the 2nd was most Honourable: and perpetuated his fame by far more lasting Monuments than those of Stone, or Brass: his Learned and useful works, fell asleep the 27th day of February 1705/6 being the 86th Year of his age in full hope of a glorious resurrection thro faith in Jesus Christ. Living in an age of extraordinary events, and revolutions he learnt (as himself asserted) this truth which pursuant to his intention is here declared. That all is vanity which is not honest and that there's no solid Wisdom but in real piety. Of five Sons and three Daughters borne to him from his most vertuous and excellent Wife MARY sole daughter, and heiress of Sir RICHARD BROWNE of Sayes Court near Deptford in Kent onely one Daughter SUSANNA married to WILLIAM DRAPER Esq of Adscomb in this County survived him the two others dying in the flower of their age, and all the sons very young except one nam'd John who deceased 24 March 1698/9 in the 45th year of his age, leaving one son JOHN and one daughter ELIZABETH.

Wotton passed down to Evelyn's great-great-grandson Sir Frederick Evelyn (1733â€"1812). The baronetcy next passed to Frederick Evelyn's cousins, Sir John Evelyn, 4th Bt (1757â€"1833) and Sir Hugh Evelyn, 5th Bt (1769â€"1848). Both these two were of unsound mind and the estate was therefore left to a remote cousin descended from the diarist's grandfather's first marriage, in whose family it remains to this day though they no longer occupy the house. The title died out in 1848. However, there are many living descendants of John Evelyn the diarist via his daughter Susanna, Mrs William Draper, and his granddaughter Elizabeth, Mrs Simon Harcourt.





Rachel Wriothesley, Lady Russell




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Rachel Wriothesley, Lady Russell (c.1636- 29 September 1723)[1], was an English noblewoman, heiress, and author. Her second husband was William Russell, Lord Russell, who was implicated in the Rye House Plot and later executed. A collection of the many letters she wrote to her husband and other distinguished men was published in 1773.

Lady Rachel was born in about 1636 at Titchfield, Hampshire, the second eldest daughter and co-heiress of Thomas Wriothesley, 4th Earl of Southampton, by his first wife, Rachel de Massue, daughter of Daniel de Massue, Seigneur de Ruvigny and Madeleine de Pinot des Fontaines.

She had an older sister, Elizabeth (c.1635- 1679), who in 1661 would marry Edward Noel, 4th Viscount Campden, by whom she had issue. Elizabeth and Rachel's mother, a member of the noble French Huguenot de Ruvigny family, died on 16 February 1640 when Rachel was about four years old.[2]

Rachel's maternal cousin was Henri de Massue, Marquis de Ruvigny, 1st Earl of Galway, who would later serve King William III in Ireland.

In 1642, when Rachel was about six years of age, her father married Lady Elizabeth Leigh, by whom he had a daughter, Elizabeth. The latter would later marry the 11th Earl of Northumberland. Rachel's father would take a third wife, Frances Seymour in 1659, although that union did not produce any children.

Rachel received a religious upbringing, and remained throughout her life, a conscientous member of the Church of England.[3]

In her youth, she was described as having been remarkable for her elegance of form, personal beauty, and graceful manners.

In 1653, Rachel married her first huband, Francis Vaughan, Lord Vaughan, the eldest son of Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery. Upon their marriage, Rachel went to live with her father-in-law at Golden Grove in Carmarthen, Wales. In 1655 she gave birth to a child, whose sex and name was not recorded as it died shortly after its birth. She became a widow in 1667, which was the same year her father died. He left his entire fortune to Rachel and her older sister, Elizabeth, Viscountess Campden. The latter received the family seat of Titchfield, while the share which Rachel inherited was the domain of Stratton, also in Hampshire. Rachel remained with the Viscountess Campden at Titchfield for some time after their father's death. In 1669, Rachel married her second husband, William Russell, MP for Tavistock, a son of William Russell, 5th Earl of Bedford and Lady Anne Carr, who was three years her junior. They obtained a marriage licence at Titchfield on 31 July 1669. The marriage was described as having been happy, and Lord Russell appreciated his wife's intelligence, virtue, affection and religious piety.[5]In 1678, upon the death of his childless brother, Francis, William succeeded to the title of Lord Russell, and Rachel was thereafter styled as Lady Russell.

Together William and Rachel had three children:

* Rachel Russell (January 1674- 28 December 1725), married William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire, by whom she had five children.
* Catherine Russell (23 August 1676- 30 October 1711), married John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland, by whom she had nine children.
* Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford (1 November 1680- 26 May 1711), married Elizabeth Howland, by whom he had six children.
In 1653, Rachel married her first huband, Francis Vaughan, Lord Vaughan, the eldest son of Richard Vaughan, 2nd Earl of Carbery. Upon their marriage, Rachel went to live with her father-in-law at Golden Grove in Carmarthen, Wales. In 1655 she gave birth to a child, whose sex and name was not recorded as it died shortly after its birth. She became a widow in 1667, which was the same year her father died. He left his entire fortune to Rachel and her older sister, Elizabeth, Viscountess Campden. The latter received the family seat of Titchfield, while the share which Rachel inherited was the domain of Stratton, also in Hampshire. Rachel remained with the Viscountess Campden at Titchfield for some time after their father's death. In 1669, Rachel married her second husband, William Russell, MP for Tavistock, a son of William Russell, 5th Earl of Bedford and Lady Anne Carr, who was three years her junior. They obtained a marriage licence at Titchfield on 31 July 1669. The marriage was described as having been happy, and Lord Russell appreciated his wife's intelligence, virtue, affection and religious piety.[5]In 1678, upon the death of his childless brother, Francis, William succeeded to the title of Lord Russell, and Rachel was thereafter styled as Lady Russell.

Together William and Rachel had three children:

* Rachel Russell (January 1674- 28 December 1725), married William Cavendish, 2nd Duke of Devonshire, by whom she had five children.
* Catherine Russell (23 August 1676- 30 October 1711), married John Manners, 2nd Duke of Rutland, by whom she had nine children.
* Wriothesley Russell, 2nd Duke of Bedford (1 November 1680- 26 May 1711), married Elizabeth Howland, by whom he had six children.
In 1683, Rachel's husband was one of the conspirators in the Rye House Plot, which was a plan to ambush King Charles II of England and his brother, James, Duke of York on their way back to London from the Newmarket races. The plot was disclosed to the government. William, unlike his co-conspirators refused to escape to Holland. He was accused of promising his assistance in an insurrection and bringing about the death of the King and the Duke of York. On 26 June 1683, he was sent to the Tower of London, and shortly afterwards, tried and convicted of treason. She had acted as his secretary during his trial where he was sentenced to death by beheading. Upon his condemnation, Rachel laboured diligently to save her husband's life; she was aided by her father-in-law, Lord Bedford, who offered a sum of between £50,000 to £100,000 for a pardon to his son. Rachel even threw herself at the King's feet, pleading for him to grant clemency to her husband; however, the King was unmoved by her tearful pleas, and refused to abrogate the death sentence.[6]

On the day before her William's execution, Rachel visited him in the Tower and they embraced one last time. The following morning, on 21 July 1683, he was beheaded at Lincoln's Inn Fields. Several days later, she wrote King Charles a letter.[7]

The attainder against her husband was reversed by a bill which was passed in Parliament and received the royal signature in the reign of William and Mary.

Throughout her long life, Rachel was an avid letter-writer of high quality as well as an author.[9] Her numerous letters, mainly to her husband but also to many distinguished men such as John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury, were published in 1773. Her correspondence offers a keen insight into 17th-century English domestic life. In addition to her letters, Rachel also wrote diaries, essays, a catechism, and Instructions for Children.

Seven engraved portraits of Rachel Wriothesley are displayed in the National Portrait Gallery in London.

Rachel died at Southampton House, Bloomsbury, London on 29 September 1723, the anniversary of her late husband's birth; she was about 87 years old. Rachel was buried beside her husband on 8 October 1723 in the Bedford Chapel at the Parish Church of Chenies, Buckinghamshire.

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