Information: - Lieutenant - General William Evelyn ( 10 February 1723 -- 13 August 1783 ) was a British soldier and Member of Parliament . The sixth son of Sir John Evelyn , 1st Baronet of Wotton , he was educated at Westminster School . He was commissioned as an Ensign in the 2nd Foot Guards in 1739 , became a Lieutenant - Colonel in 1754 , Colonel in 1762 , Major - General in 1770 and Lieutenant - General in 1777 . He was colonel of the 29th Foot from 1769 until his death . Evelyn entered Parliament in 1767 as member for Helston , replacing his elder brother ; he generally voted with the government in the House of Commons , although he is not recorded as having ever spoken . He did not stand for re-election in 1774 , but was a candidate for Helston once more in 1780 , when the returning officer made a double return ( reporting all the candidates in a disputed election as elected so that the relevant House of Commons committee could determine the outcome ) . The committee decided against him , so he was unable to retake his seat : nor , ironically , could his opponent Jocelyn Deane , who had died before the dispute was settled . Evelyn died unmarried in 1783 , and is buried at Send in Surrey . - Westminster School is an English independent day and boarding school located within the precincts of Westminster Abbey. It has the highest Oxford and Cambridge university acceptance rates of any secondary school or college in the world. With origins before the 12th century, the educational tradition of Westminster probably dates back as far as AD 960, in line with the Abbey's history. The school's alumni include Ben Jonson, John Dryden, Robert Hooke, Sir Christopher Wren, Louis Theroux, John Locke, Jeremy Bentham, Edward Gibbon, Henry Mayhew, A. A. Milne, Peter Ustinov, Tony Benn and seven Prime Ministers. Boys are admitted to the Under School at age seven and to the senior school at age thirteen; girls are admitted at age sixteen into the Sixth Form. The school has around 750 pupils; around a quarter are boarders, most of whom go home at weekends, after Saturday morning school. It is one of the original nine British public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868. Charging up to 7,800 per term for day pupils and 11,264 for boarders in 2014/15, Westminster is the 13th most expensive HMC day school and 10th most expensive HMC boarding school in the UK. - Alan Alexander Milne (18 January 1882 31 January 1956) was an English author, best known for his books about the teddy bear Winnie-the-Pooh and for various poems. Milne was a noted writer, primarily as a playwright, before the huge success of Pooh overshadowed all his previous work. Milne served in both World Wars, joining the British Army in World War I, and was a captain of the British Home Guard in World War II. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'military branch' with the subject 'william evelyn '. Choices: - british army - home guard
The answer to this question is:
british army