Evans George de Lacy 1787-1870

General Sir George de Lacy Evans GCB (7 October 1787 – 9 January 1870) was a British Army general and later an MP. He was born in 1787, in Moig, County Limerick, Ireland and joined the East India Company's forces in 1800 before volunteering for the British Army in India in 1806. Evans was present at the battle of Quatre Bras on 16 June 1815 and the battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815. Evans became increasingly concerned that Russia had designs on India. He wrote two books, "On the Designs of Russia" (1828) and "On the Practicability of an Invasion of British India" (1829). From 1854, during the Crimean War he commanded the 2nd Division of the British Army. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Rye in 1830, and from 1831 to 1832, and for Westminster from 1833 to 1841 and from 1846 to 1865. Evans died on 9 January 1870.