ENGLAND: THE OTHER WITHIN

Analysing the English Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum

Explore the database of all the people associated with the Pitt Rivers English collections. This gives information about their lives; their education, careers, place of residence, and their network of friends and colleagues. Select the first letter of their surname from the list below.

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John Evans

Career Manufacturer / Archaeologist / Antiquarian / Natural Historian / Businessman / Trader

Biography Archaeologist, numismatist, paper manufacturer and archaeological collector [Alison Petch [as part of 'The Other Within' project 2006-9] 15/01/2007]

Biography References http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33040 / Who was Who 2007 / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Evans_%28archaeologist%29

Clubs & Societies Geological Society / Hertfordshire Natural History Society / East Hertfordshire Archaeological Society / St Albans and Hertfordshire Architectural and Archaeological Society / Royal Numismatic Society / Royal Society / Society of Antiquaries / Royal Anthropological Institute [& earlier manifestations] / Royal Society of Arts / British Association for the Advancement of Science / Linnean Society

County London [Greater] / Yorkshire / Norfolk / Dorset

Relationship Field Collector / Other Owner / PRM Source

Archaeological or Ethnographic Archaeology Ethnography

Collected around 1897

Dates active 1823-1908

Donated around 1897

English collections Quern, stone tools, casts of stone tools, gun-flint maker's core, red-deer's antler pick, circular tinder-box, bonze dagger and axe head, apparently forgeries, spindle whorls, Kimmeridge disc, lead disc,

Oxford Uni Education No

Oxford based No

Portrait link http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/33040

English collection size 39

Connections Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers / Arthur John Evans / Joan Evans / Billie or Billy William Monk (aka William Smith) / Charlie or Charley or Charles Eaton / Oxford University Museum of Natural History