John Evans

Career Manufacturer / Archaeologist / Antiquarian / Natural Historian / Businessman / Trader

Biography Archaeologist, numismatist, paper manufacturer and archaeological collector [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 15/01/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33040 / Who was Who 2007 / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Evans_%28archaeologist%29

Clubs & Societies Geological Society / Hertfordshire Natural History Society / East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society / St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society / Royal Numismatic Society / Royal Society / Society of Antiquaries / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Royal Society of Arts / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Linnean Society

County London [Greater] / Yorkshire / Norfolk / Dorset

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic ArchaeologyEthnography

Collected around 1897

Dates active 1823-1908

Donated around 1897

English collections Quern, stone tools, casts of stone tools, gun-flint maker's core, red-deer's antler pick, circular tinder-box, bonze dagger and axe head, apparently forgeries, spindle whorls, Kimmeridge disc, lead disc,

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

Portrait link http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33040

English collection size 39

Connections Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers / Arthur John Evans / Joan Evans / Billie or Billy William Monk (aka William Smith) / Charlie or Charley or Charles Eaton / Oxford University Museum of Natural History