John Evans (archaeologist)

Sir John Evans

Sir John Evans (born November 17, 1823 in Britwell Court , Burnham , Buckinghamshire , † May 31, 1908 in Berkhamsted parish , Hertfordshire ) was an English archaeologist , geologist and collector .

Life

John Evans was the second son of Arthur Benoni Evans, the director of Dixie Grammar School at Market Bosworth , and his wife Anne, who was the daughter of Captain Thomas Dickinson RN of Bramblebury near Woolwich . At seventeen he began working in the paper mill at John Dickinson & Co. in Nash Mills ( Hemel Hempstead , Hertfordshire ). The company was founded by his uncle and later father-in-law John Dickinson (1782–1869). He was the inventor of mechanical paper production and senior partner of the company. Evans was promoted to director of the paper mill and was named aPartner at John Dickinson & Co. added. In the same year he married Harriet Ann, a daughter of John Dickinson. He remained in the active management of the company until 1885.

In addition to his work in company management, John Evans was always active in other areas. He was a corresponding member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory and the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies . He was trustee of the British Museum and owned a large collection of archaeological finds, including very rare specimens and coins, and had a library.

He was involved in the excavations at Kents Cavern , which played a large role in prehistoric archeology.

He died in Britwell in 1908 and was buried in Abbot's Langley parish church in Hertfordshire.

His son Arthur John Evans was an archaeologist, excavator of the Minoan palace at Knossos and curator of the Ashmolean Museum . His younger son Lewis Evans continued the family tradition of collector and antiquarian collecting scientific instruments that are now at the heart of the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford .

Offices and honors

1874–1908 President of the Numismatic Society
1874–1876 President of the Geological Society ,
1877–1879 President of the Anthropological Institute
1885-1892 President of the Society of Antiquaries of London
1891-1893 President of the Society of Chemical Industry
1897–1898 President of the British Association
from 1864 member of the Royal Society
from 1881 member of the American Philosophical Society
from 1888 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1878–1898 Treasurer of the Royal Society

1892 Evans won the Bathorden second class (Knight Commander) of the Order of the Bath .

Web links

Entry to Evans; Sir; John (1823–1908) in the Archives of the Royal Society , London

Individual evidence

^ Member History: Sir John Evans. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 2, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Evans, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English archaeologist and geologist
DATE OF BIRTH	November 17, 1823
PLACE OF BIRTH	Britwell Court , Buckinghamshire, England
DATE OF DEATH	May 31, 1908
Place of death	Britwell , Berkhamsted Parish , Hertfordshire, England

[1] Member History: Sir John Evans. American Philosophical Society, accessed August 2, 2018 .