English traveler and archæologist, born at Nash Mills, Hemel Hempstead, in 1851. He received his education at Harrow School and Brasenose College, Oxford, and pursued historical studies at Göttingen. In company with Professor Balfour, he explored the Finnish and Lapp countries between the Arctic and the Baltic seas. In 1875 he traveled through the Slavonic parts of southeastern Europe, engaged in exploring the antiquities and studying the ethnology and language of the Dalmatian peninsula. In the meantime he followed the revolutionary movement going on at that time, and described the course of events from the camps of the insurgents. His correspondence afforded parliamentary weapons to the enemies of Turkish dominion in Europe. Some criticism of the action of the Austrian government in South Dalmatia in 1882 resulted in Mr. Evans’s arrest and subsequent expulsion from Austrian dominions. After his return to England he settled at Oxford, where he was chosen lecturer in 1883, and in 1884 keeper of the Ashmolean Museum. Among his writings, chiefly upon archæological subjects, are Antiquarian Researches in Illyricum; The Horsemen of Tarentum (1889), a monograph on the coinage of that city; Syracusan Medallions and Their Engravers (1892).
