Maud Bevan

Dame Maud Elizabeth Bevan DBE, JP (née Brand; 18 August 1856 – 8 January 1944) was the daughter of Henry Bouverie William Brand, 1st Viscount Hampden of Glynde and 23rd Baron Dacre, and his wife, Eliza Ellice.

Marriage

Maud Elizabeth Brand and David Augustus Bevan (born 1856 – died 26 December 1937) married on 22 October 1885. They resided at Shephall Bury, near Stevenage during the 1920s.

Children

• Maurice Bevan (born 9 August 1886–6 January 1925) he married Joan Ponsonby on 9 June 1914. They have four children:
  • David Gerald Bevan (2 April 1915-2 May 1988) he married Anne Madeleine Elliot on 25 May 1940. They have children.
  • Oliver Dermot Bevan (25 September 1918-29 May 1940)
  • Elizabeth Anne Bevan (29 March 1916-1967) she married Miles Herman de Zoete on 6 June 1939. They have children.
  • Susan Hermione Bevan (2 November 1921) she married Charles Patrick Russell Bowen‑Colthurst on 9 June 1948. They have children.
• Nancy Isabel Bevan (born 9 June 1888–1981) she married John Nevile Buchanan on 16 November 1915
  • John David Buchanan (26 Oct 1916-2005) he married Janet Marjorie Pennycuik in 1946. They have children.
  • Arthur Goeffrey Buchanan (9 May 1919-17 March 1943)
  • Mary Elizabeth Buchanan (9 May 1919-30 March 1987) she married George Bernard Ward Jr on 28 April 1945. They have children.
  • Peter Alexander Buchanan (15 July 1922-1986) he married Pamela Dione Parker on 25 November 1955.
• Thomas Richard Bevan (16 May 1890–1970) he married Margaret Turnure on 17 July 1922. They have two children.
  • Timothy Michael Bevan (7 April 1931) he married Georgiana Knight on 12 December 1970, They have children.
  • Prudence Mary Bevan (10 June 1929) she married Thomas Henry Joly de Lotbinière on 15 September 1952. They have children.
• Colonel John Henry Bevan (born 5 April 1894– 3 December 1978) he married Lady Barbara Bingham on 18 January 1927. They have three children:
  • Jennifer Jane Bevan (11 November 1927) she married John Luke Lowther on 21 February 1952
  • Julian Charles Bevan (13 July 1929) he married Joan Pritchard on 7 February 1955. They have children.
  • Marion Margaret Bevan (1936) she married Peter Wake on 8 March 1960. They have children.

Death

Dame Maud Bevan died on 8 January 1944, aged 87.

Honours/Awards

• She was invested as a Dame Commander, Order of the British Empire (DBE) in 1918 "for services to the Red Cross in the Great War".
• She held the office of Justice of the Peace (JP) for Hertfordshire in 1920.

Sources

• Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, USA: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 1, page 1015.

External links

• Biodata/ Peerage website
• Shephall Bury