Lewis Evans

Lewis Evans c.1700-1756, colonial surveyor and geographer, b. Wales. Evans carried out several assignments for Benjamin Franklin. His travels and studies of the colonies nearest him bore fruit in two maps, A Map of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and the Three Delaware Counties (1749, rev. ed. 1752) and A General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America published together with an Analysis (1755). The first of these was used by migrating colonists for the excellent detail of the roads. The second was used by General Braddock during the French and Indian War, and was published many times over by London firms. In the Analysis he drew particular attention to the Ohio River and suggested ways and means of acquiring it by force from the French. His Brief Account of Pennsylvania (1753) was reprinted in the biography by L. H. Gipson (1939).

Masquerier, Lewis (1802–?),Kentucky‐born sociologist and pioneer in phonetic spelling, invented a new alphabet of 11 vowels and 22 consonants, published in The Phonotypic Spelling and Reading Manual (1867). Influenced by George Henry Evans, he developed a plan for an agrarian Utopia, in which the wage system and rents would be abolished, and his individualism eventually led him to anarchism. His various pamphlets were collected in Sociology, or the Reconstruction of Society, Government, and Property (1877) and An Appendix to Sociology (1884).

Handel Opera. Founded 1955 as Handel Opera Society by Charles Farncombe, at suggestion of E. J. Dent, to revive interest in Handel's operas. First prod. was Deidamia, 1955, at St Pancras Town Hall. Moved in 1959 to Sadler's Wells Th. Revived over 20 Handel works, many for the first time since Handel's lifetime. Name changed to Handel Opera 1980. Singers who appeared with the company incl. Richard Lewis, Geraint Evans, James Bowman, Janet Baker, Joan Sutherland, and Anna Reynolds. Ceased 1985.