EVELYN

John, an English writer of the seventeenth century, born at Wotton, in Surrey, 31st Oct., 1620, died there, 27th Feb., 1706. After completing his course at Oxford, he studied law at the Middle Temple, visited various parts of the Continent, and in 1659 prepared the way for the Restoration. He published numerous works, amongst which are: Sculptura, or the History and Art of Chalcography; Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees; treatises on gardening and architecture. But by far his most important work is his memoirs, comb reh ending a diary and correspondence, which are interesting contributions to the history of the time. Rvelyn’s Diary was first published in 1818, and an edition by Austin Dobson appeared in 1906.—Cf. H. Maynard Smith, The Harly Life of John Evelyn.