[2] He received his education at Jersey Grammar School and emigrated to Victoria in Australia in 1857 before moving to Hokitika in New Zealand in circa 1865.
He was a Visiting Justice to Hokitika Prison and an official visitor to the local mental hospital.
[4] Bevan contested the 1884 election in the Hokitika electorate against the incumbent, Gerard George Fitzgerald, and James Clarke.
[8] On 7 May 1900, Bevan married the widow Anne Clery (née Handley) at All Saints' Church.
[4] His funeral at Hokitika Cemetery was an Anglican service with Masonic ceremony, largely attended by Freemasons from throughout Westland.