See also:SIR See also:JOHN See also:EVANS (1823-1908)
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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
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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
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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
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
Stone Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of See also:Great See also:Britain (1872, and ed
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1897); and The Ancient See also:Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and See also:Ireland (1881)
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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
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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 (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of his See also:death
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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
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As president of the Society of Antiquaries he was an ex officio trustee of the British Museum, and subsequently he became a permanent trustee
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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
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He was created a K.C.B. in 1892
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He died at Berkhamsted on the 31st of May 1908
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His eldest son, See also:ARTHUR JOHN EVANS, born in 1851, was educated at Brasenose See also:College, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and See also:Gottingen
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He be-came See also:fellow of Brasenose and in 1884 keeper of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford
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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
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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)
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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
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His chief publications are: Cretan Pictographs and Prae-Phoenician Script (1896); Further Discoveries of Cretan and Aegean Script (1898); The Mycenaean See also:- TREE (0. Eng. treo, treow, cf. Dan. tree, Swed. Odd, tree, trd, timber; allied forms are found in Russ. drevo, Gr. opus, oak, and 36pv, spear, Welsh derw, Irish darog, oak, and Skr. dare, wood)
- TREE, SIR HERBERT BEERBOHM (1853- )
Tree and See also:Pillar Cult (1901); Scripta Minoa (1909 See also:foil.); and reports on the excavations
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He also edited with additions See also:Freeman's History of See also:Sicily, vol. iv
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