Andrew Behan has done some research on this man with the splendid name:
His full name was Edwyn Evans Cronk. Born in 1846 in Sevenoaks, Kent, the son of Edwyn Evans Cronk and Isabella Cronk, née Bain. He married Gertrude Tylee in 1872 in Chelsea. An architect and surveyor, he died at 23 Redcliffe Square, South Kensington on the 22nd April 1919.
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E. Evans Cronk
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