John Evans-Freke, 6th Baron Carbery

John Evans-Freke, 6th Baron Carbery (11 November 1765 – 12 May 1845), known as Sir John Evans-Freke, 2nd Baronet between 1777 and 1807, was an Anglo-Irish politician and peer.

Marble statue of John Evans-Freke in St Fachtna's Cathedral, created in 1848 by Guillaume Geefs.[1]

He was the son of Sir John Freke, 1st Baronet. In 1777 he succeeded to his father's baronetcy.[2] He served in the Irish House of Commons as the Member of Parliament for Donegal Borough between 1783 and 1790. He then represented Baltimore from 1790 to 1800. On 4 March 1807 he succeeded his first cousin once removed, John Evans, as Baron Carbery, and in 1824 was elected to the House of Lords as an Irish representative peer.[3]

On 25 January 1783, he married his cousin, Lady Catherine Charlotte Gore, the third daughter of Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran. He died without surviving male issue, and was succeeded in his titles by his nephew, George Evans-Freke.

References
  1. Galloway, Peter (1992). The Cathedrals of Ireland. Belfast: The Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University of Belfast. p. 193. ISBN 0-85389-452-3. Makers mark at the statue: Gme Geefs statuaire de S M Le Roi des Belges, Bruxelles le 20 Juillet 1848.
  2. The peerage of the British empire as at present existing (1845), p.97 (Retrieved 2 June 2016).
  3. The peerage of the British empire as at present existing (1845), p.97 (Retrieved 2 June 2016).


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