John EVANS,
K.C.B.,
Born 17 Nov. 1823 -
Third child, second son of Arthur Benoni EVANS and Anne DICKINSON;
Died 31 May1908
(My x 2 great uncle)
He managed John Dickinson paper mills, Apsley
and was a well-known collector and historian.
Treasurer R.S., D.C.L.; etc. etc. (Auntie Dick’s recording!)
For full details of John's life and works go to the
Sir John Evans Centenary
Project
See also - British Archaeology at the Ashmolean Musuem
Personal Papers of Sir John Evans
Read Time and Chance by Joan Evans - Longmans 1943
Reprints available by
Greenwood Press, 1974.
Frances Ann Roper (née HUBBARD) writes
John Evans is well documented.
Married. 1) 12 Sept. 1850, his cousin
Harriet Ann DICKINSON.
She died leaving five children, 1 Jan 1858 and was buried at Abbot’s Langley,
Herts.
Married 2) 23 July 1859, his cousin Frances PHELPS who
died 22 Sept. 1890 and was buried at Abbot’s Langley, Herts.
(Although she didn’t bear children herself she
was by all accounts a marvellous stepmother.)
Married 3) 9 July 1892 Marie Millington
LATHBURY (4 Dec. 1856 – 4 June 1944) of Wimbledon – one daughter
see b) below
a) John and Harriet’s children were –
1.
Arthur John
EVANS, 8 July 1851 – 12 July 1941; m. 19
Sept 1878, Margaret dau. of Edward Augustus FREEMAN, D.C.L.; of Somerleaze,
Wells, Somerset. She was b. 17 Oct. 1848 – d. 11 March 1893 at Alassio, Italy.
Balkan war correspondent;
archaeologist, famous for excavating
Knossos, Crete.
2.
Lewis EVANS,
15 Feb 1853 – 25 Sept 1930;
m. 1) 14 Feb 1884 Beryl May, dau. of the Rev Percival Seth WARD of Apsley,
Herts. She was b. 23 May 1866 and d. 19 Nov. 1886, bur. at Apsley.
m. 2) Eva, dau. of Captain BRADFORD and had five children.
3.Philip
Norman EVANS, 13 Dec. 1854 – 9 Dec. 1893 at
Reading and bur. there on his birthday.
He m. 23 April 1887, Ada Dickinson GILBERT.
4.Alice
EVANS, 9 July 1856 – 13 March 1887; m. 26
Sept 1882 William MINET (b.13 Sept. 1851 – d.1933)
They had one child Susan b. 3 March 1884.
5.
Harriet Ann
EVANS, 19 Dec 1857 – 20 April 1938; m. 15
July 1880, Charles James LONGMAN (14 April 1852 – 7 April 1934)
Publisher.
Their children were -
i)
Mary LONGMAN, 29 April 1881
ii)
William LONGMAN, 14 Nov. 1882
iii)
Sibyl LONGMAN, 25 April 1885
iv) Frederick LONGMAN, 9 May 1890
b) John and Maria’s daughter was Joan EVANS, 22 June 1893 –
Sept. 1977;
(born some 42 years after her elder half-brother.)
Writer, photographer and art historian
