John Evelyn I, Oliver Cromwell's rise and eventual natural death, the last Great Plague of London, and the Great Fire of London in 1666. Evelyn's posthumously "rival" diarist, Samuel Pepys, wrote a different kind of diary, covering a much shorter period, 1660–1669, but in much greater depth, within the same era. Over the years, Evelyn's Diary has been overshadowed by Pepys's chronicles of 17th-century life. Born into a family whose wealth was largely founded on gunpowder production, John Evelyn was born in Wotton, Surrey and grew up in Lewes, Sussex. While living in Lewes, in Southover Grange, he was educated at Lewes
John and Evelyn Billings Richmond aged care centre, survived by his wife, children and large extended family. Evelyn died on 16 February 2013, aged 95, following a brief illness. John and Evelyn Billings John Billings, (5 March 1918 – 1 April 2007) and his wife Evelyn Livingston Billings, (née Thomas; 8 February 191816 February 2013) were Australian physicians who pioneered the natural method of family planning known initially as the Ovulation Method, then the Ovulation Method Billings, specified by the WHO in 1978 and finally as the Billings Ovulation Method. John Billings was born in Melbourne and was educated at Xavier College, and at