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John Evans

1823 - 1908

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Sir John Evans (17 November 1823 – 31 May 1908) was an English antiquarian, geologist and founder of prehistoric archaeology. Between 1884 and 1908 he was curator of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, becoming the founding member of the British Academy in 1902 and professor of prehistoric archaeology at Oxford in 1909. The John Evans collection, housed at Oxford's Ashmolean Museum, comprises more than 12,000 objects, including a large proportion of British Palaeolithic stone tools. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Evans has received more than 76,466 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. John Evans is the 84th most popular archaeologist, the 3,131st most popular biography from United Kingdom and the 14th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, John Evans ranks 84 out of 104. Before him are Hugo Winckler, Ernesto Schiaparelli, Joseph Orbeli, Israel Finkelstein, Massimo Pallottino, and Henri Frankfort. After him are Sven Nilsson, Paul Rivet, Charles Dawson, John Marshall, Akurgal, and Tatiana Proskouriakoff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1823, John Evans ranks 56. Before him are Jules Émile Planchon, Ahmed Vefik Pasha, Karl Schenk, Ivan Aksakov, Oscar Dickson, and Gustav Adolf, Cardinal Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst. After him are Gonçalves Dias, Lascăr Catargiu, Daniel Harrwitz, Joseph Leidy, Eduard Oscar Schmidt, and William M. Tweed. Among people deceased in 1908, John Evans ranks 74. Before him are Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten, Paul Taffanel, Rūdolfs Blaumanis, William Edward Ayrton, Lorenz Frølich, and Simo Matavulj. After him are Milovan Glišić, Nozu Michitsura, Silvije Strahimir Kranjčević, Hashimoto Gahō, Baron Ignaz von Plener, and Carl Friedrich Schmidt.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Evans ranks 3,131 out of 7,765. Before him are Thomas Bewick (1753), Vic Elford (1935), Paul Bernays (1888), John Arthur Jarvis (1872), Henry Raeburn (1756), and Reg Parnell (1911). After him are Charles Wyville Thomson (1830), Charles Avison (1709), Grey Owl (1888), Dave Charlton (1936), Charles Crichton (1910), and David Murray (1909).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, John Evans ranks 14. Before him are George Smith (1840), Alan Gardiner (1879), Colin Renfrew (1937), Robert Broom (1866), Kathleen Kenyon (1906), and E. A. Wallis Budge (1857). After him are Charles Dawson (1864), John Marshall (1876), Dorothea Bate (1878), Dorothy Garrod (1892), James Prinsep (1799), and James Mellaart (1925).

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