{{short description|British politician (1817–1885)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder |honorific_prefix = |name = Evan Pateshall |honorific_suffix = {{Post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MP}} |image = |alt = |caption = |office = Member of Parliament <br /> for Hereford |parliament = |majority = |term_start = 3 February 1874 |term_end = 14 March 1878 |alongside = George Clive |predecessor = George Arbuthnot <br />Chandos Wren-Hoskyns |successor = George Arbuthnot<br />George Clive |birth_date = December 1817 |birth_place = |death_date = {{death date and age|1885|4|9|1817|12}} |death_place = |resting_place = |alma_mater = King's College London |birth_name = Evan Thomas |party = Conservative |spouse = {{marriage|Anne Elizabeth Pateshall|1842}} }}

'''Evan Pateshall''' (born ''Evan Thomas'';<ref name="herefordshirepast">{{cite web|title=Allensmore Court History|url=http://herefordshirepast.co.uk/buildings/allensmore-court/|website=Herefordshire Past|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref> December 1817 – 9 April 1885)<ref>{{Rayment-hc|h|2|date=December 2017}}</ref> was a Conservative Party politician.

==Personal life== Pateshall was born as Evan Thomas in December 1817 to David Thomas of Radnorshire. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and King's College London.<ref>{{cite book|title=Bye-gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties, Volume 7|date=1884}}</ref> He married Anne Elizabeth Pateshall, only child of William Pateshall, in 1842 and changed his surname to Pateshall in 1855.<ref name="herefordshirepast"/> He lived at Allensmore Court in Allensmore, Herefordshire.

== Political career == Pateshall was Mayor of Hereford in 1863,<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Mayors|url=http://www.herefordcitycouncil.gov.uk/the-mayor-of-today/past-mayors/|website=Hereford City Council|accessdate=31 December 2017}}</ref> before being elected Conservative MP for Hereford constituency in 1874. He then resigned after four years in 1878.<ref name="craig1832">{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book}}</ref>

== Other activities == During his life, Pateshall was a Justice of the Peace, a Deputy Lieutenant for each of Herefordshire, Brecon and Radnor, and commanded one of the companies of the Hereford Rifle Volunteers.<ref name="herefordshirepast"/>

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==External links== * {{Hansard-contribs | mr-evan-pateshall-1 | Evan Pateshall }}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{s-bef| before = George Arbuthnot <br />and Chandos Wren-Hoskyns}} {{s-ttl| title = Member of Parliament for Hereford | with = George Clive | years = 1874 – 1878}} {{s-aft| after = George Arbuthnot<br />and George Clive}}

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