The Right Honorable GEORGE EVANS, of Caherass and Bulgaden Hall, in the county of Limerick. This gentleman was bred to the bar, but following the example of his father and brother, became an active partisan of the revolution, and after the establishment of the new government in Ireland, was sworn of the privy council, made custos rotulorum of the county of Limerick, and returned to parliament by the borough of Charleville. He m. in 1679, Mary, daughter of John Eyre,(*) esq. of Eyre Court Castle, in the county of Galway, M.P. for that shire.205


George was a member of parliament, of Bulgaden Hall.

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The Right Hon. George Evans, who was a distinguished public character, refused a peerage on the accession of King George I when the honor was conferred upon his eldest son. He died in May,1720, and his body embalmed lay in state in the parliament house until the next month, when it was removed for interment to Ballygrennane.205