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MILITARY PERSONNEL

Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans

1880 - 1957

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Admiral Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, (28 October 1880 – 20 August 1957) was a Royal Navy officer and Antarctic explorer.Evans was seconded from the navy to the Discovery expedition to Antarctica in 1901–1904, when he served on the crew of the relief ship, and afterwards began planning his own Antarctic expedition. However, he suspended this plan when offered the post of second-in-command on Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova expedition to the South Pole in 1910–1913, as captain of the expedition ship Terra Nova. He accompanied Scott to within 150 miles of the Pole, but was sent back in command of the last supporting party. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans has received more than 164,420 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans is the 1,500th most popular military personnel (down from 1,388th in 2019), the 3,418th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,868th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans ranks 1,500 out of 1,468Before him are Leo Phokas the Younger, Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford, Abu Ali al-Anbari, Harry Patch, Natalya Kovshova, and Stefan Toshev. After him are Oliver Hazard Perry, Henry Halleck, Friedrich Sixt von Armin, Nathan Hale, Murat Karayılan, and Flora Sandes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans ranks 152Before him are Herbert Brenon, Jean Alexandre Barré, Hans Moser, Louis Hémon, Joe May, and Lipót Fejér. After him are Yordan Yovkov, George Preca, Ramón Pérez de Ayala, Frederick Lane, Knud Kristensen, and Josef Gočár. Among people deceased in 1957, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans ranks 161Before him are Aleksey Remizov, Ted Meredith, Gaston Aumoitte, Ernesto Chaparro, Robert Lowie, and Mikhail Gnessin. After him are Robert Esnault-Pelterie, Wyndham Lewis, Carl Størmer, Karl Patterson Schmidt, Walter Nausch, and Devdas Gandhi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans ranks 3,418 out of 7,765Before him are Emil Voigt (1883), Liam Howlett (1971), Colin Salmon (1962), John Polkinghorne (1930), Ian Hunter (1939), and Johnny Haynes (1934). After him are Ireen Sheer (1949), Lisa Stansfield (1966), Joseph Noel Paton (1821), Frances Yates (1899), John Mayhew (1947), and Sam Riley (1980).

Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans ranks 92Before him are Charles Lee (1731), Timothy Laurence (1955), Guy Simonds (1903), Frederick Browning (1896), Frederic Thesiger, 2nd Baron Chelmsford (1827), and Harry Patch (1898). After him are Flora Sandes (1876), John Byng (1704), William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (1891), Edward Pellew, 1st Viscount Exmouth (1757), Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591), and Reginald Wingate (1861).