A member of a prominent Surrey family, his career in Parliament was cut short after a few months by his premature death from smallpox.
John was the eldest son of George Evelyn, of Godstone, and of his second wife Margaret Webb.
[1] At the 1702 election he was returned unopposed at Bletchingley, where his father and grandfather had previously sat.
On his journey to take his seat, he visited his second cousin once removed, the diarist John Evelyn, at Wotton, Surrey; the latter referred to him as "a young and very hopeful gentleman".
John is believed to have been a Whig, but his short tenure in Parliament precludes a positive identification.