| Evan Henry Llewellyn | |
| Honorific Suffix: | JP DL |
| Office: | Member of Parliament for North Somerset |
| Term Start: | 1895 |
| Term End: | 1906 |
| Predecessor: | Courtenay Warner |
| Successor: | William Henry Bateman Hope |
| Term Start1: | 1885 |
| Term End1: | 1892 |
| Predecessor1: | New constituency |
| Successor1: | Courtenay Warner |
| Education: | Rugby School |
| Parents: | Llewellyn Llewellyn Eliza William Strick |
| Relations: | William Somers Llewellyn (grandson) |
Colonel Evan Henry Llewellyn JP DL (25 February 1847 – 27 February 1914) was a British Army officer and a Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1885 and 1906.
Llewellyn was born on 25 February 1847. He was the fourth son of the former Eliza William Strick (daughter of John Strick of Swansea) and Llewellyn Llewellyn of Buckland Filleigh, North Devon.[1] His sister, Rose Cecilia Llewellyn, married Adm. Sir Charles Lionel Vaughan-Lee (both children of Vaughan Vaughan-Lee).[2]
He was educated at Rugby School.[1]
He served in the British Army, where he was an officer in the 4th (Militia) battalion of the Somersetshire Light Infantry. Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, he volunteered for active service when the battalion was embodied that December, and left Southampton for South Africa on the in early March 1900.[3] He was later the commander of the 2nd (Central African) Battalion, King's African Rifles.[4]
In the 1885 general election, Llewellyn was elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for North Somerset and held the seat until the 1892 general election. He was re-elected for the seat in the 1895 general election and held it until the 1906 general election.
He was a Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant of Somerset.[5]
In 1868, Llewellyn married Mary Blanche Somers (1847–1900), a daughter of Elizabeth Williams and Thomas Somers of Mendip-Lodge, Somerset.[1] Together, they lived at Langford Court, Somerset and were the parents of:
Llewellyn's wife died in 1900 and he died of heart failure after a severe attack of bronchitis on 27 February 1914.[11]
Through his son Owen, he was a grandfather of Rt. Rev. William Somers Llewellyn (1907–2001), Bishop of Lynn from 1963 to 1972.
He is the great-great-grandfather of David Cameron, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2016.[12]