Silvanus Bevan

Silvanus Bevan
Born	1691 Swansea, Wales
Died	1765 Hackney
Resting place	Bunhill Fields
Nationality	English
Occupation	Apothecary
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth (Quare) Bevan Martha Heathcote
Parent(s)	Silvanus Bevan (1661–1727) Jane (Phillips) Bevan
Relatives	Daniel Quare (father-in-law) Timothy Bevan (brother)

Silvanus Bevan FRS (1691–8 June 1765) was an apothecary, who founded the London firm of Allen & Hanburys.

Silvanus Bevan was born in 1691 in Swansea, into a prosperous Welsh Quaker family. His father was also called Silvanus Bevan (1661–1727). His mother was Jane Bevan (née Phillips). He had a younger brother, Timothy 1704-1786). He left Swansea as a young man, and moved to Cheapside, in London.

He obtained his "Freedom" from the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries in 1715 having served his seven years' apprenticeship with Thomas Mayleigh. He established his Pharmacy at Number Two Plough Court, Lombard Street in one of whose rooms Alexander Pope, the poet, had been born in 1688.William Cookworthy was one of his apprentices.

His business prospered, and in 1725 he was joined by his younger brother, Timothy (1704–1786). Timothy continued the Plough Court Pharmacy after his brother's retirement, and was succeeded by his son, Joseph Gurney Bevan (1753–1814). In the nineteenth century, under William Allen and the Hanbury family, Allen & Hanburys became one of the leading pharmaceutical companies in London.

In 1725, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society, on the proposal of Isaac Newton. In 1743 his letter entitled “An Account of an Extraordinary Case of the Bones of a Woman Growing Soft and Flexible”, was printed in their Philosophical Transactions. It describes his findings having performed a post-mortem examination.

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