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BY the death of Sir John Evans, British archaeology has lost one who was amongst its foremost figures for more than fifty years. The son. of the late Rev. A. B. Evans, D.D., he was born at Britwell Court in 1823, educated at Market Bosworth School, and entered the business of his maternal uncle, Mr. John Dickinson, F.R.S., the founder of the famous paper factory at Nash Mills. From school young Evans brought with him a genuine, love of classical literature and history, and presently he developed a no less strong taste for science, whilst he at once showed business capacity of no Ordinary kind. Very soon he directed his attention to geology. Practical reasons may have hastened a natural tendency, as he was led to this study by a dispute respecting the water rights of his uncle's firm, and in a comparatively short time he mastered the principles of that science. He became an active member of the Geological Society, of which he was elected president in 1874.
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R., W. Sir John Evans, K.C.B., F.R.S . Nature 78, 131–132 (1908). https://doi.org/10.1038/078131a0
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