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

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

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

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