Richard Bevan (banker, born 1788)

Richard Bevan (22 August 1788 – 4 February 1870) was a British banker and philanthropist.

He joined the Brighton Union Bank which had been set up in 1805 by a deed of co-partnership between William Golding, James Browne, Nathaniel Hall, Richard Lashmar and Thomas West.

[3][4] Bevan made charitable contributions to the Widow's Friend and Benevolent Society.

[2] In 1859, their youngest daughter Charlotte Louisa (1831-1911) married Percival Bosanquet (1831-1915), the son Augustus Henry Bosanquet and Louisa Priscilla Bevan (the eldest daughter of Richard's cousin David Bevan).

[2] His second wife was Sarah (-1883), the daughter of Richard Cuming Dewar of Clapham, Surrey.