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EVANSVILLE 



Ashmolean 

 Museum at 

 Oxford. H i s 

 discovery in 

 Crete in 1893 

 of a pre-Phoe- 

 nician script 

 was discussed 

 in his Cretan 



Sir Arthur Evans, P i c t o g r a p h s, 

 British archaeologist 1895, and de- 



Lajayeile Veloped in his 



Scripta Minoa, 1909. His excava- 

 tf~:n of the Minoan palace of 

 Cnossus in 1900-8 elucidated the 

 Aegean civilization first revealed 

 by Schliemann at Mycenae. He 

 became extraordinary professor of 

 prehistoric archaeology at Oxford 

 in 1910, and was president of the 

 British Association, 1916-17. In 

 1911 he was knighted. 



Evans, EDWARD RADCLIFFE 

 GARTH RUSSELL (b. 1881). British 

 sailor and explorer. The son of a 

 barrister, h e 

 was educated 

 at the Mer- 

 chant Taylors' 

 School. Enter- 

 ing the navy in 

 1897, he be- 

 came lieuten- 

 ant in 1902, 

 and was navi- 

 gating officer 

 to the Ant- 

 arctic relief 

 ship Morning, 1902-4, making two 

 voyages to the S. Polar regions to 

 the relief of the Discovery when 

 she was frozen in MacMurdo Strait. 

 He joined the British Antarctic 

 Expedition as second in command 

 in 1909, and after the death of 

 Captain Scott in, 1912 he brought 

 it back. A commander in the navy, 

 on the outbreak of the Great War, 

 he took part in the bombardment 

 of the Belgian coast in 1914. He 

 was in command of the Broke 

 when, in 1917, that vessel and the 

 Swift defeated six German de- 

 stroyers. He was promoted cap- 

 tain in 1917, and received the 

 D.S.O. See Antarctic Exploration. 

 Evans, SIR GEORGE DE LACY 

 (1787-1870). British soldier. Born 

 at Moig, co. Limerick, Ireland, he 

 entered the In- 

 dian army in 

 1806 and in 

 1812 joined the 

 3rd Dragoons 

 in the Penin- 

 sula. He was 

 present at Vit- 

 toria, Pampe- 

 luna, and Tou- 

 louse. In the 

 American War 

 he took part in the seizure of 

 Washington, and in the operations 

 before New Orleans, and, returning 



E. R. G. R. Evans. 

 British explorer 



Russell 



Sir John Evans, 



Sir G. de Lacy Evans, 

 British soldier 



to Europe, was present at Waterloo. 

 After a short time in Parliament 

 as an advanced radical, he com- 

 manded the legion recruited in 

 England to assist Queen Isabella 

 of Spain against the Carlists. The 

 legion, though ill-equipped and 

 neglected by the Spanish govern- 

 ment, fought well under Evans's 

 command, 1835-37. Evans's last 

 active service was in the Crimean 

 War, from which, however, he was 

 invalided home. He resumed his 

 seat in the House, received the 

 thanks of Parliament, and was 

 made a G.C.B. He died Jan. 9, 1870. 



Evans, SIB JOHN (1823-1908). 

 British archaeologist and numis- 

 matist. Born at Britwell Court, 

 Buckingham- 

 shire, Nov. 17, 

 1823, in 1840 

 he entered his 

 uncle's paper 

 mills at Kernel 

 Hempstead. 

 He was pre- 

 sident of the 

 Geological So- 

 ciety, 1874-76; 



the N u m i s- British archaeologist 

 matio Society, Elliott * f '* 

 1874-1908; the Society of An- 

 tiquaries, 1885-92 : and the An- 

 thropological Institute, 1877-79. 

 Admitted a Fellow 1861, he was 

 treasurer of the Royal Society, 

 1878- -98. He wrote Coins of the 

 Ancient Britons, 1864, with supple- 

 ment, 1890 : Ancient Stone Imple- 

 ments of Great Britain, 1872, 

 2nd ed. 1897; Ancient Bronze 

 Implements of Great Britain and 

 Ireland, 1881. He died May 31, 

 1908. His collection of 1,700 coins 

 was presented to the British 

 Museum by his son in 1919. 



Evans, MARIAN OR MARY ANN 

 (1819-80). Maiden name of the 

 British novelist better known as 

 George Eliot (q.v.). 



Evans, OLIVER (1755-1819). 

 American inventor. Born at New- 

 port, Delaware, he entered his 

 brother's milling business, and 

 invented and fitted up various 

 appliances for economising time 

 and labour. The machinery was 

 worked by water power, and re- 

 volutionised the grinding of corn. 

 Americana claim that Evans de- 

 signed the first steam engine on 

 the high-pressure principle, and it 

 is agreed that his plans, sent to 

 England, were seen by Trevethick. 

 Although never so successful as 

 Watt, he was one of the pioneers of 

 steam locomotion, and ranks as one 

 of the most ingenious mechanics 

 that America has produced. He 

 died at New York, April 25, 1819. 



Evans, ROBLEY DUNQLISON 

 (1846-1912). American sailor. 

 Born in Virginia, Aug. 18, 1846, 



Sir Samuel Evans, 

 British lawyer 



Ruttell 



he received his naval training in 

 the U.S. Naval Academy in 1863. 

 He saw considerable service during 

 the Civil War, being wounded in 

 the land attack on Fort Fisher, 

 1865. In 1891 he was in command 

 of the Yorktown off Valparaiso, 

 where his attitude towards Chile, 

 between whom and the U.S.A. 

 relations were at the time strained, 

 earned him the nickname of 

 Fighting Bob. Promoted captain 

 in 1893, in the Spanish- American 

 War he commanded the Iowa 

 under Admiral Sampson off San- 

 tiago, and fought Cervera's fleet, 

 July 3, 1898. Promoted rear- 

 admiral 1901, he was commander- 

 in-chief of the Asiatic station in 

 1902. He died Jan. 3, 1912. 



Evans, SIR SAMUEL THOMAS 

 (1859-1918). British lawyer and 

 politician. Born at Neath, Glam- 

 organshire, he 

 graduated at 

 London Uni- 

 versity, and 

 became a so- 

 licitor in 1883. 

 Practising in 

 his native 

 town, he was 

 elected M.P. 

 for mid- Glam- 

 organshire in 

 1890, which 

 constituency he represented for 

 twenty years. He became a bar- 

 rister in 1891, a Q.C. in 1901, was 

 recorder of Swansea from 1906-8, 

 and in 1908 was appointed solicitor- 

 general and knighted. In 1910 he 

 left Parliament to become president 

 of the probate, divorce, and admi- 

 ralty division, which, after the out- 

 break of the Great War, included 

 the business of the prize court. He 

 died at Brighton, Sept. 13, 1918. 



Evanston. City of Illinois, 

 U.S.A., in Cook co. It stands on 

 Lake Michigan, 13 m. N. by W. 

 of Chicago, and is served by the 

 Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, 

 and the Chicago and N.W. 

 Rlys. It is the seat of the North- 

 western University, and contains 

 various educational institutions. 

 Settled in 1835, it was incorporated 

 in 1863, and received a city charter 

 in 1892. Pop. 29,305. 



Evansville. City of Indiana, 

 U.S.A., the co. seat of Vanderburg 

 co. On the Ohio river, 150m. W. 

 by S. of Indianapolis, it is served 

 by the Louisville and Nashville and 

 other rlys. A port of entry, it 

 carries on a thriving trade in coal, 

 flour, and tobacco, and has cotton, 

 woollen, and flour mills, in addition 

 to foundries, machinery works, and 

 cigar, glass, and leather factories. 

 Evansville dates from 1816, and 

 became a city in 1847. Pop. 

 77,531. 



