William Evans (1788–1856)

William Evans (17 January 1788 – 8 April 1856) was a Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons in three periods between 1818 and 1852.

[1] The Evans family had made a fortune from lead mines at Bonsall, and an iron slitting and rolling mill in Derby and a cotton mill at Darley Abbey.

Evans was Member of Parliament (MP) for East Retford from 1818 to 1820, and in 1826 unsuccessfully contested Leicester at a cost of between £20,000 and £30,000.

He was then elected for North Derbyshire in 1837 and held the seat until 1853,[3] when he resigned by taking the Chiltern Hundreds.

He left this house to his son Sir Thomas William Evans, 1st Baronet who also became a Member of Parliament.