| Authorised form of name | Evans; Sir; Frederick John Owen (1815 - 1885) |
| Dates | 1815 - 1885 |
| Date of birth | 09 or 25 March 1815 |
| Place of death | His residence, 21 Dawson Place, Pembridge Square, London |
| Date of death | 20 December 1885 |
| Research field | Hydrography; geomagnetism |
| Activity | Career:
Entered Royal Navy as second class volunteer (1828); surveyed the Coral Sea, the Great Barrier Reef and the Torres Straits (1841-1846); Superintendent of the Compass Department, Royal Navy, working with Archibald Smith (FRS 1856) (1855); Captain (1872); Hydrographer to the Royal Navy (1874); served on the Krakatoa Committee of the Royal Society with responsibility for investigating tidal data (1884)
Honours:
CB 1873; KCB 1881
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 05/06/1862 |
| Royal Society activity | Royal Society roles:
VP 1884-1885 |
| Relationships | Son of John Evans, Master, Royal Navy; married (1846) Elizabeth Mary, daughter of Captain Charles Hall RN |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB; DSB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1886 vol 40 pp i-vii signed by G H R
References:
Charles H Cotter, 'The Royal Society and the Deviation of the Compass' in NR 1976-7 vol 31 pp 297-309
Notes:
DNB, DSB and Boase give birth date as 9 March 1815; index to BR gives 25 March 1815 |
| Virtual International Authority File | http://viaf.org/viaf/102409724 |
| Royal Society code | NA2166 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| MC/6 | Volume 6 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1859-1863 |
| MM/21/96 | Letter from Sir Frederick John Owen Evans to Joseph Dalton Hooker, President, Royal Society | 10 December 1875 |
| MC/7 | Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society | 1864-1866 |
| MS/769/25 | Letter from Frederick John Owen Evans, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, to [Walter] White | 28 December 1883 |
| PT/72/4 | Illustrations and tables, from 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship' by Frederick John Owen Evans and Archibald Smith | [1865] |
| RR/4/82 | Letter from George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Reduction and discussion of the deviations of the compass observed on board of all the iron-built ships, and a selection of the wood-built steam-ships in Her Majesty's Navy, and the iron steam-ship 'Great Eastern'' by Frederick John Evans | 27 June 1860 |
| RR/4/83 | Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'Reduction and discussion of the deviations of the compass observed on board of all the iron-built ships, and a selection of the wood-built steam-ships in Her Majesty's Navy, and the iron steam-ship 'Great Eastern'' by Frederick John Evans | 25 April 1860 |
| RR/4/86 | Letter from John Washington, on a paper 'Reduction and discussion of the deviations of the compass observed on board of all the iron-built ships, and a selection of the wood-built steam-ships in Her Majesty's Navy, and the iron steam-ship 'Great Eastern'' by Frederick John Evans | 7 May 1860 |
| RR/4/245 | Referee's report by Edward Sabine, on a paper 'On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass-needles; and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation' by Archibald Smith and Frederick John Owen Evans | 12 June 1861 |
| RR/6/116 | Referee's report by George Henry Richards, on a paper 'On the amount and changes of the polar magnetism at certain positions in Her Majesty's iron-built and armour-plated ship 'Northumberland'' by Frederick John Evans | 22 May 1868 |
| RR/6/115 | Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'On the amount and changes of the polar magnetism at certain positions in Her Majesty's iron-built and armour-plated ship 'Northumberland'' by Frederick John Evans | 22 May 1868 |
| RR/7/65 | Referee's report by Frederick John Owen Evans, on a paper 'Contributions to terrestrial magnetism - No. XII. The magnetic survey of the British Islands, reduced to the epoch 1842·5' by Edward Sabine | 11 July 1870 |
| RR/4/85 | Letter from Archibald Smith, on a paper 'Reduction and discussion of the deviations of the compass observed on board of all the iron-built ships, and a selection of the wood-built steam-ships in Her Majesty's Navy, and the iron steam-ship 'Great Eastern'' by Frederick John Evans | 29 June 1860 |
| RR/7/178 | Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the present amount of westerly magnetic declination [variation of the compass] on the coast of Great Britain, and its annual changes' by Frederick John Owen Evans | 2 July 1872 |
| PT/63/9 | Paper, 'On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass needles and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation' by Archibald Smith and Frederick John [Owen] Evans | [1861] |
| PT/61/5 | Paper, 'Reduction and discussion of the deviations of the compass observed on board of all the iron built ships, and a selection of the wood built steam ships in H M [Her Majesty's] Navy; and the iron steam ship Great Eastern: being a report to the hydrographer of the Admiralty' by Frederick J [John Owen] Evans | 19 April 1860 |
| MS/427/355 | Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society; to J. W. Underhill, Hydrogr[aphic] Department, Admiralty | 3April 1884 |
| RR/4/84 | Referee's report by Archibald Smith, on a paper 'Reduction and discussion of the deviations of the compass observed on board of all the iron-built ships, and a selection of the wood-built steam-ships in Her Majesty's Navy, and the iron steam-ship 'Great Eastern'' by Frederick John Evans | 16 October 1860 |
| RR/4/244 | Referee's report by George Biddell Airy, on a paper 'On the effect produced on the deviations of the compass by the length and arrangement of the compass-needles; and on a new mode of correcting the quadrantal deviation' by Archibald Smith and Frederick John Owen Evans | 17 May 1861 |
| RR/8/210 | Referee's report by Frederick John Owen Evans, on a paper 'A magnetic survey of the fortieth parallel in North America between the Atlantic Ocean and the Great Salt Lake Utah' by Thomas Edward Thorpe | 18 June 1879 |
| RR/5/70 | Referee's report by Thomas Romney Robinson, on a paper 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the royal navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship' by Frederick John Owen Evans and Archibald Smith | 22 April 1865 |
| EC/1862/06 | Evans, Sir Frederick John Owen: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| PT/72/4/1 | Tables, from 'On the magnetic character of the armour-plated ships of the Royal Navy, and on the effect on the compass of particular arrangements of iron in a ship' by Frederick John Owen Evans and Archibald Smith | [1865] |
| PT/72/4/2 | Plate, diagrams showing action of soft iron rods on compass by unknown artist | [1865] |
| PT/72/4/3 | Plate, position of compasses in profiles of ships by unknown artist | [1865] |
| MC/6/155 | Letter from T H Farrer, Office of Committee of Privy Council of Trade, Marine Department, Whitehall, to the Secretary of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly | 25 June 1861 |
| MC/7/260 | Letter from Fredk Jn O [Frederick John Owen] Evans, Chief Naval Assistant in charge of the magnetic department, Admiralty, Hydrographic Department, to the Hydrographer of the Admiralty | September 1865 |
| MC/7/267 | Letter from Fredk Jn O [Frederick John Owen] Evans, Hydrographic Office, to General [Edward] Sabine, [President of the Royal Society] | 23 October 1865 |