Harry Congreve Evans

Henry Congreve Evans (10 December 1860 – 9 January 1899), generally known as "Harry Evans" or "Harry Congreve Evans", was a journalist, editor and newspaper proprietor of South Australia.

The Rev. Ephraim Evans (1825 – 6 April 1863), a Baptist minister born in Wales, married Mary Ann Wilton (1830–1858), and emigrated to South Australia around 1854. He was sent to the Reedy Creek (now Palmer) copper mine, where he ministered and taught at the local school, then in 1856 to Nuriootpa, where his workload forced him to abandon teaching. They had a son and a daughter before she died, in 1858. On 16 February 1860 he married Matilda Jane Congreve (7 August 1827 – 22 October 1886), who wrote under the pseudonym Maud(e) Jean(ne) Franc. They had two sons: Henry "Harry" Congreve Evans, born at Nuriootpa, and William James "Will" Evans (1862–1904). He died at South Rhine on Easter Monday 1863 aged 38 years.

After leaving school, Harry Evans found employment with Fanning & Co., then at the age of 16 joined the Advertiser, where he was noted for his stenographic skills and the speed and clarity of his longhand writing, while his energy, good humour and organising ability earned for him leadership of the literary staff. In 1888, as a result of a tour made with Frank Johnson, Minister of Education, to the Northern Territory, he produced an interesting series of articles for his paper. But he craved an outlet for his independent thought and writing, and founded the Quiz, a weekly humorous and satirical publication which he founded with A. T. Chandler (1852–1941) also ex-Advertiser, James Hutchison, Harry Craker, and A. W. Gresswell Smith. Five years later, when Chandler left the partnership, Evans continued as sole editor. The paper was well received by the public and in 1890, by absorbing a competitor, became Quiz and The Lantern. Harry Evans was the librettist of Immomeena, composed by Moritz Heuzenroeder (ca.1850–1897); and The Mandarin, composed by John M. Dunn (1865–1936), organist and choirmaster of St. Peter's Cathedral, and both performed at the Theatre Royal, in 1893 and 1896 respectively. He died barely two years later, and was buried at West Terrace Cemetery.

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