Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Capt Francis Evatt's gravestone: On a walk along Route 67 the other day I popped into St Mary's Cathedral and was reminded that the original gravestone of Captain Francis Evatt was located in the entrance area of the church. Something a lot of people probably didn't know. Captain Evatt was commander of Fort Frederick from 1817 until his death in 1850 and is often called the Father of Port Elizabeth because of the … [Read more...] about Capt Francis Evatt’s gravestone – Featured Blog
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Captain Francis Evatt’s grave at Fort Frederick – Featured Blog
Today's posts from our featured Port Elizabeth Blogger: Captain Francis Evatt's grave at Fort Frederick: Captain Francis Evatt was born in Ireland in 1770 and arrived in the Cape Colony in 1806 with the 21st Dragoon Guards and served together with his brother for a number of years on the frontier. In 1817 he was appointed as Commandant of Fort Frederick at a salary of 90 pounds a year (only half the pay he should have been receiving as Captain), a post he occupied until his … [Read more...] about Captain Francis Evatt’s grave at Fort Frederick – Featured Blog
