Timothy Bevan (apothecary)


Timothy Bevan was a British apothecary and pharmacist.

Early life

Timothy Bevan was born in 1704. He was the son of Silvanus Bevan. He was the younger brother of Silvanus Bevan FRS.

Career

Bevan was an apothecary and pharmacist. With his brother, he had a shop at the Plough Court on Lombard Street, London.

Personal life

He married Elizabeth Barclay. Their son Silvanus Bevan was a British banker. Their son Joseph Gurney Bevan was a writer of Quaker apologetical works.
During the mid-18th century, he hired the English educator and Quaker Robert Proud to tutor his children. Proud would later go on to write a history of the Province of Pennsylvania.

Death

He died in 1786.