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SIR JOHN EVANS (1823-1908)

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 2 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:JOHN See also:EVANS (1823-1908)  , See also:English archaeologist and geologist, son of the Rev . Dr A . B . See also:Evans, See also:head See also:master of See also:Market See also:Bosworth See also:grammar school, was See also:born at Britwell See also:Court, Bucks, on the 17th of See also:November 1823 . He was for many years head of the extensive See also:paper manufactory of Messrs See also:John See also:Dickinson at See also:Nash See also:Mills, Hemel Hempstead, but was especially distinguished as an See also:antiquary and numismatist . He was the author of three books, See also:standard in their respective departme:lts: The Coins of the See also:Ancient Britons (1864); The Ancient See also:Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of See also:Great See also:Britain (1872, and ed . 1897); and The Ancient See also:Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and See also:Ireland (1881) . He also wrote a number of See also:separate papers on archaeological and See also:geological subjects—notably the papers on " See also:Flint Implements in the See also:Drift " communicated in 186o and 1862 to Archaeologia, the See also:organ of the Society of Antiquaries . Of that society he was See also:president from 1885 to 1892, and he was president of the Numismatic Society from 1874 to the See also:time of his See also:death . He also presided over the Geological Society, 1874–1876; the Anthropological See also:Institute, 1877–1879; the Society of Chemical See also:Industry, 1892–1893; the See also:British Association, 1897–1898; and for twenty years (1878-1898) he was treasurer of the Royal Society . As president of the Society of Antiquaries he was an ex officio trustee of the British Museum, and subsequently he became a permanent trustee . His See also:academic honours included honorary degrees from several See also:universities, and he was a corresponding member of the Institut de See also:France .

He was created a K.C.B. in 1892 . He died at Berkhamsted on the 31st of May 1908 . His eldest son, See also:

ARTHUR JOHN EVANS, born in 1851, was educated at Brasenose See also:College, See also:Oxford, and See also:Gottingen . He be-came See also:fellow of Brasenose and in 1884 keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford . He travelled in See also:Finland and See also:Lapland in 1873–1874, and in 1875 made a See also:special study of See also:archaeology and See also:ethnology in the See also:Balkan States . In 1893 he began his investigations in See also:Crete, which have resulted in discoveries of the utmost importance concerning the See also:early See also:history of See also:Greece and the eastern Mediterranean (see See also:AEGEAN See also:CIVILIZATION and CRETE) . He is a member of all the See also:chief archaeological See also:societies in See also:Europe, holds honorary degrees at Oxford, See also:Edinburgh and See also:Dublin, and is a fellow of the Royal Society . His chief publications are: Cretan Pictographs and Prae-Phoenician Script (1896); Further Discoveries of Cretan and Aegean Script (1898); The Mycenaean See also:Tree and See also:Pillar Cult (1901); Scripta Minoa (1909 See also:foil.); and reports on the excavations . He also edited with additions See also:Freeman's History of See also:Sicily, vol. iv .

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