Arthur John Evans
1851–1941
Archaeologist. Son of John Evans (1823–1908). BA, Oxford, 1874. Travelled in Bosnia and Scandinavia. Founded Casa San Lazzaro at Ragusa, Sicily, for the study of language, antiquities, and customs. Keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1884–1908. Excavated Roman and Celtic ruins in England, and later worked in Crete in association with the British School of Archaeology at Athens. FRS 1901.
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Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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