and promoted full general on 10 March 1861. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for Rye in 1830, and from 1831 to 1832, and for Westminster from 1833 to 1841 and from 1846 to 1865. He was also awarded the Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honour. In 1854, Evans was appointed to command the 2nd Division at the start of the Crimean war, and fought at the Battle of the Alma. Around the time of the Battle of Inkerman, he was sick, so Major General John Pennefather was in command of the division. He was later invalided home. Beginning in the middle 1850s Evans became a strong advocate for reform of the British army. In particular he was harshly critical of the system by which British army officers purchased their commissions and were expected to pay for each rank of promotion. While he did not live to see the final abolition of the purchase system which occurred in 1871, his persistent call for amelioration was instrumental in its ultimate demise. Evans died on 9 January 1870, and is buried in Kensal Green Cemetery, London. Portraits of Evans were painted by Peter Edward Stroehling (above) and Richard Buckner. An engraving based on the latter can be seen on the web site of the British Library, London. The original life-size Buckner portrait was rediscovered in 2012 and was authenticated by art historian Philip Mould on the BBC Antiques Road Show at Cheltenham in 2013. Sir George de Lacy Evans's medals and awards are on display at the Queens Own Royal Hussars Museum located in the Lord Leycester Hospital in Warwick. Arms References Sources Adkin, Mark (2001). The Waterloo Companion. Aurum. Barbero, Alessandro (2005). The Battle: A New History of Waterloo. Atlantic Books. George, Christopher T., Terror on the Chesapeake: The War of 1812 on the Bay, Shippensburg, Pa., White Mane, 2001, Spiers, Edward M (1983). Radical General : Sir George de Lacy Evans, 1787–1870, Manchester, U.K., Manchester University Press, de Lacy Evans' grave at historyhome.co.uk Further reading Brett, Edward M. The British Auxiliary Legion in the First Carlist War 1835–1838: A Forgotten Army. Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005. Bullen, Roger and Strong, Felicity (Eds.). Prime Minister Papers Series I. Palmerston: Private Correspondence with Sir George Villiers (afterwards 4th Earl of Clarendon) as Minister to Spain 1833–1837. London: Royal Commission of Historical Manuscripts, HMSO, 1985. Coverdale, John F. The