George Joseph Hamilton Evatt was born on 11 November 1843 in Dublin, Ireland, the eldest child of Captain George Joseph Evatt of the 70th (Surrey) Regiment of Foot (1813-1858) and Mary Anne Evatt née Farrell (1826-1887).
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The London & Provincial Medical Directory of 1865 lists him living at 9 Longwood Avenue, Dublin. On 15 January 1877 he married Sophia Mary Frances Kerr (1855–1934) in Mozufferpore, Bengal, India, (now Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India).
The 1881 census shows him as an M.D. and a Surgeon-Major on the active list, lodging in the home of a John Driscoll, a tailor, at 38 The Common, Woolwich, whilst his wife and daughter, Sophie Estelle Kerr Evatt (1878-1958) were living with her parents at Vale House, Val Plaisant, St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands.
When their son, George Raleigh Kerr Evatt (1883-1914) was baptised on 31 October 1883 at St Mary Magdalene Church, Woolwich, the baptismal register entry shows the family living in Woolwich and that his father's occupation was recorded as Surgeon Major, Army Medical Department.
He was described as Surgeon General in the 1901 census living at 6 Wingfield Villas, Stoke, Plymouth, Devon, with his wife, their two children, together with a cook, a house-maid and a parlour-maid.
On the night of the 1911 census he was shown as a retired army officer (surgeon) boarding at 13 Nevern Place, Earls Court, whilst his wife, their two children, his mother-in-law Mary Rouet Kerr née Wilson (1832-1911), his brother-in-law Colonel Mark Ancrum Kerr (1859-1941), his sister-in-law Ethel Georgina Kerr (1867-1950), together with a cook, a house-maid and a nurse, were residing in their ten roomed family home at Wayside, Upper Park Road, Camberley, Surrey.
He was made a Companion of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB) in the King's Birthday Honours List in 1903 and was promoted to Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath (KCB) in the New Year Honours List in 1919.
Electoral registers from 1919 and probate records confirm that he had been living at 33 Earls Court Square, South Kensington and that he died, aged 77 years, on 5 November 1921. He was buried on 10 November 1921 in a private grave in Compartment 8, Section 7, 166..0 x 50..0 at Brompton Cemetery, Fulham Road, London, SW10 9UG. Probate was granted to his widow on 10 December 1921 and his effects totalled £3,580-16s-5d.
Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.
