John Evelyn, an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, has become best known as a diarist. He was a founding Fellow of the Royal Society.
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Southover Grange, Evelyn's childhood home
Evelyn painted by Robert Walker, 1648, in the fashionable deshabillé (semi-dressed)
Portrait of John Evelyn by Hendrik van der Borcht II, 1641
Evelyn's motto written in a book he bought in Paris in 1651. Keep what is better
Drawing of Wotton House near Guildford by Evelyn, 1640
Illustration from critique of Silva, or a discourse of forest-trees: terra... published in Acta Eruditorum, 1707
Etching by Evelyn for his friend Thomas Henshaw, known as an alchemistWriters born in the 1620s 6
About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1620 to 1706 · aged 85
Written about in
27 languages
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