John Bevan (New Zealand politician)

John Bevan (1837 – 16 July 1911) was a 19th-century member of the House of Representatives from the West Coast of New Zealand.

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 entered a partnership with Michael Pollock and they traded under the banner of Pollock and Bevan in Hokitika's Revell Street.

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.

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