Robert Cooper Lee Bevan

Robert Cooper Lee Bevan
Born	8 February 1809 Walthamstow, East London, England
Died	1890
Occupation	Banker
Spouse(s)	Agneta Elizabeth Yorke Emma Frances Shuttleworth,
Children	7 (first marriage), 9 (second marriage)
Parent(s)	David Bevan Favell Bourke Lee
Relatives	Silvanus Bevan (paternal grandfather) Timothy Bevan (paternal great-grandfather) Favell Lee Mortimer (sister)

Robert Cooper Lee Bevan (8 February 1809 – 1890) was a British banker. He served as a senior partner of Barclays Bank.

Robert Cooper Lee Bevan was born on 8 February 1809 at Hale End, Walthamstow. He was the eldest son of fellow banker David Bevan (1774–1846), and his wife, Favell Bourke Lee (1780–1841). He was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford.

Bevan served as a senior partner of Barclays Bank.

He resided at Fosbury House, Wiltshire, and Trent Park, London. His father bought Trent Park as a gift to celebrate his marriage to Agneta Elizabeth Yorke.

He founded Christ Church, Cockfosters, and the funerary monument to the Bevan family is the largest single monument in the graveyard of that church. The inscription to him reads, "He lived soberly, righteously and godly in this present world". His eldest son Sydney was the joint first baptism (along with Cecil, the son of his brother-in-law Augustus Henry Bosanquet) in the new church, nine days after its consecration.

He had 16 children, seven with his first wife, Lady Agneta Elizabeth Yorke (1811-51), daughter of Vice-Admiral Hon. Sir Joseph Sidney Yorke and Elizabeth Weake Rattray:

He had a further nine children with his second wife, the translator and poet Emma Frances Shuttleworth, daughter of Philip Nicholas Shuttleworth, Bishop of Chichester:

John Bateman in his Great landowners, of 1883, lists Bevan as having:

He died in 1890.

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