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Authorised form of nameEvans; Sir; Arthur John (1851 - 1941)
Dates1851 - 1941
Date of birth08 July 1851
Date of death11/07/1941
ActivityEducation:
Harrow School; MA
Career:
Known as the discoverer of Knossos.
Honours:
Kt 1911
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election06/06/1901
RSActivityMedals and prizes:
Copley Medal 1936
RelationshipsSon of Sir John Evans (FRS 1864); grandson of John Dickinson (FRS 1845); great grandson of Lewis Evans (FRS 1823)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Obituary Notices of Fellows of the Royal Society 1939-1941 vol 3 pp 941-968, plate, by J L Myres
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/14778694
CodeNA6065
Archives associated with this Fellow
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MM/16/95Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to Lady Dawkins3 October 1931
EC/1901/04Evans, Sir Arthur John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/16/97Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to Lady Dawkins6 February 1932
MM/16/93Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to Lady Dawkins31 July 1931
MM/16/72Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, Berks, to W B Dawkins27 December 1915
MM/16/98Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to Lady Dawkins30 August 1932
MM/16/87Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to W B Dawkins21 June 1927
MM/16/82Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, St Ives, to W B Dawkins12 September 1925
MM/16/84Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to Lady Dawkins26 October 1925
MM/16/99Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to Lady Dawkins22 January 1933
MM/16/80Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to W B Dawkins23 October 1923
MM/16/92Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to Lady Dawkins21 July 1931
MM/16/75Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Knossos, to W B Dawkins26 June 1923
MM/16/89Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to W B Dawkins24 December 1927
MM/16/100Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to Lady Dawkins6 February 1933
MM/16/79Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to W B Dawkins4 October 1923
MM/16/83Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to Lady Dawkins21 September 1925
MM/16/90Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to W B Dawkins27 December 1928
MM/16/86Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to W B Dawkins26 December 1926
MM/16/73Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, Berks, to W B Dawkins25 October 1918
MM/16/88Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to Lady Dawkins22 October 1927
MM/16/96Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to Lady Dawkins24 December 1931
MM/16/70Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, Berks, to W B Dawkins14 December 1911
MM/16/69Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, Berks, to W B Dawkins30 November 1911
MM/16/94Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to Lady Dawkins12 August 1931
MS/743/1/153Letter from Arthur John Evans, Ashmolean Museum, to [John Hall Gladstone]11 July 1896
MS/743/1/131Letter from Arthur John Evans, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to [John Hall Gladstone]31 July 1891
MM/16/81Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to W B Dawkins23 February 1925
MM/16/77Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to W B Dawkins15 September 1923
MM/16/74Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Knossos, to W B Dawkins3 June 1922
MM/16/85Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to W B Dawkins28 December 1925
MM/16/78Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to W B Dawkins22 September 1923
MM/16/76Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Knossos, to W B Dawkinsc.1923
MM/16/71Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, Berks, to W B Dawkins19 January 1912
NLB/52/474Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to Sir Arthur John Evans, FRS17 December 1915
NLB/52/475Copy letter from [Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]; to The Curator of Sir John Soane's Museum; 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, W. C17 December 1915
NLB/54/90Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur [John] Evans, FRS5 February 1917
NLB/58/179Copy letter from Edwin Deller, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur Evans, FRS23 March 1920
MC/33/50Letter from Arthur Evans, Youlbury, Berks, near Oxford, to the [Royal Soicety]26 February 1918
IM/001320Evans, Sir Arthur John1907
MM/15/105Extracts from Council Minutes of the Royal Society, on the creation of a Committee to consider the subject of the proposed Astronomical survey of Ancient British Monuments1906
MM/16/91Letter from Sir Arthur J Evans, Youlbury, to Lady Dawkins23 September 1929
NLB/1/274Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Arthur John Evans19 November 1886
RR/18/161Referee's report by Arthur John Evans, on a paper 'On the discovery of a novel type flint implements below the base of the Red Crag of Suffolk, proving the existence skilled workers of flint in the Pliocene age' by Ray LankesterDecember 1911
IM/001319Evans, Sir Arthur Johnnd
NLB/55/317Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur [John] Evans, FRS25 February 1918
RR/24/65Referee's report by Arthur John Evans, on a paper 'The transition from rostro-carinate flint implements to the tongue-shaped implements of river-terrace gravels' by James Reid Moir[November 1917]
MC/30/192Letter from Walter [Lewis] Spiers, Curator, Sir John Soane's Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C, to The Secretaries, The Royal Society, Burlington House18 December 1915
MC/31/197Letter from Walter Spiers, Curator, Sir John Soanes' Museum, 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields, W.C, to The Secretaries, Royal Society1 January 1916
NLB/55/331Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society; to Sir Arthur [John] Evans, FRS27 February 1918
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