John Eveleigh (Oriel)

John Eveleigh (1748–1814) was an English churchman and academic, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford, from 1781.

On 5 December 1781 he was elected Provost of Oriel in succession to John Clarke, becoming at the same time prebendary of Rochester Cathedral.

As Provost of Oriel Eveleigh raised the college's academic reputation; among the Fellows elected was John Keble.

He brought out a work on The Doctrine of the Holy Trinity, Oxford, 1791, and other sermons in 1797 and 1806.

Eveleigh married Dorothy, daughter of William Sandford, Fellow of All Souls College and rector of Hatherop, Gloucestershire, and left an only daughter, Jane, who married John Heathcote Wyndham, rector of Gorton.