Henry Edward James Bevan FRSL[1] (14 May 1854 – 11 July 1935) was an English Anglican divine.
He became curate at St Lawrence Jewry for five years (1878–83), and Camden Lecturer there.
[7] From 1894 to 1930 he was Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of London,[4] serving three incumbent bishops - Frederick Temple (about whom Bevan authored a memoir of Temple's period in London, published 1906),[4] Mandell Creighton and Arthur Winnington-Ingram.
Through his mother, Bevan was the grand-nephew of John Smalman, the builder of Quatford Castle in Shropshire, which later became his own country residence when he inherited it in 1889.
The organist and composer, John Ireland (1879–1962), whose 'Te Deum in F' (1907) is dedicated to Bevan, was appointed sub-organist at Holy Trinity Sloane Street in 1896, and followed Bevan to St Luke's Church, Chelsea as organist in 1904.