Background
Bevan was born in Jersey on the Channel Islands in 1837 into a Welsh family.
Bevan was born in Jersey on the Channel Islands in 1837 into a Welsh family.
He received his education at Jersey Grammar School and emigrated to Victoria in Australia in 1857 before moving to Hokitika in New Zealand in circa 1865. He represented the Hokitika electorate from 1884 to 1887, when he was defeated. Bevan was a District Grand Master of Freemasons in Westland.
He died at Hokitika on 16 July 1911.