Evans
Evans House
Sedbergh School
Sedbergh
LA10 5BT
Tel: +44 (0)15396 20226
Housemaster: Mr C D Gunning
Tutor: Mr J C Gonzalez Mendia. Tel: +44 (0)15396 22240
Emblem: The Wasp
Colours: Yellow
Evans has been a boarding house since 1878 although it was first acquired by a Headmaster of the School in 1784. As with all the other Houses, its name corresponded to the name of the Housemaster until 1908 when the Governors decided to fix the name in memory and honour of John Harrison Evans, Headmaster between 1838 and 1861.
Over the years Evans House has been extended to take in surrounding buildings, including the Cross Keys Inn, a bank and Cockle Street properties. For a while, the town's fire engine was kept in what is now the garage.
Famous sons of Evans
Brigadier Jock Campbell who won the Military Cross in the First World War and the Victoria Cross at the battle of Sidi Rezegh in the Second was a member of Evans House. There is a strong Wordsworth connection through his sons and other famous sons names include James Wilby, Will Greenwood and Adam Rickitt and Frederick Guthrie Tait, twice winner of the Amateur Golf Championship, killed in the Boer War in 1900. Herbert Capstick, the only Jamaican to serve with the RAF in the Battle of Britain, was an Old Evanian, as was John Spencer, an ex-England rugby captain.