About George Essex Evans
George Essex Evans was an Australian poet. George Essex Evans was born on June 18, 1863 and died on November 10, 1909. Evans founded the Austral Society in Toowoomba in 1903 to promote music, art, literature, science and industry. He entered the public service in 1888 and eventually became District Registrar of births, deaths and marriages first for Gympie and then later for Toowoomba. His first volume of poetry, The Repentance of Magdalene Despar, was published in 1891. In 1881, when Essex Evans was 17, the siblings J.B.O. (John Bowen Owen), Blanche Gough and Beatrice emigrated to Queensland, Australia, travelling first class on a journey around the Cape of Good Hope that lasted 65 days.
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