Arthur Humble Evans

Arthur Humble Evans FRSE (23 February 1855 – 28 March 1943) was a British ornithologist.

Life

He was born in Scremerston on the Northumberland coast on 23 February 1855, the son of Rev Hugh Evans, the local vicar. He attended school in Durham and here befriended Henry Baker Tristram who instilled in him his first love of ornithology.

He graduated MA from Clare College, Cambridge in 1879 in the Second Class of the Classic Tripos later also gaining a doctorate (DSc). He became a lecturer in English History and Economics at Cambridge University, living at 9 Harvey Road in Cambridge. In 1900 he was elected as an Esquire Bedell.

He retired to Cheviot House in Crowthorne in Buckinghamshire in 1928 and died there on 28 March 1943.

Publications Birds, illustrated by George Edward Lodge, Cambridge Natural History (1899) Aves Hawaiienses (1890–1899), with Scott Barchard Wilson A Vertebrate Fauna of the Shetland Islands (1899), with Thomas Edward Buckley Handbook to the Natural History of Cambridgeshire (1904) Turner on Birds (1903) A Fauna of the Tweed Area (1911) The Birds of Britain (1916)