Robert Cooper Lee 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 Solictor-General of Jamaica, and later Barrister of London, England. Career. Bevan  served as a senior partner of Barclays Bank. Personal life. He resided at Fosbury House, Wiltshire, and Trent Park, London. His father bought Trent Park as a gift to celebrate his marriage to Agneta Elizabeth Yorke. He founded Christ Church, Cockfosters, 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". His eldest son Sydney was the joint first baptism (along with Cecil, the son of his brother-in-law Augustus Henry Bosanquet) in the new  church, nine days after its consecration. He had 16 children, seven with his first wife, Lady Agneta Elizabeth Yorke (1811–51), daughter of Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke and Elizabeth Weake Rattray: He had a further nine children with his second wife, the translator and poet Emma Frances Shuttleworth, daughter of Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth, Bishop of Chichester: Brighton Town Mission (Brighton and Hove City Mission). Whilst living in Brighton, Bevan saw the deplorable state of the slums, and being a Christian wanted to "push back the tide of evil and ignorance" 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: Death. He died in 1890.