Geoffrey Evans (botanist)

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Sir Geoffrey Evans

botanist who was Economic Botanist and acting Director at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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Early life

Evans was born in

Bury, Lancashire, and at Downing College, Cambridge, where he received a Diploma in Agriculture in 1905.[2]

Career

After working at the Agricultural Department of the University of Cambridge,[3] he was in the Indian Agricultural Service from 1906 to 1923.[1][2] From 1927 to 1938 he was Principal of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad,[3] and worked from there in Australia, Fiji and New Guinea.[2]

Evans was a Member of the British Guiana Refugee Commission,[2] a Member of the Commission on Higher Education in West Africa from 1942 to 1943[4][5] and Chairman of the Commission for Settlement in British Guiana and British Honduras.[2]

In 1938 Evans joined the staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,[6] where he was Economic Botanist (1938–1954) and, from 1941 to 1943, acting Director.[1][2][7] He can be seen in the short colour film World Garden by cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth in 1942.[8]

Death and legacy

He died at

Mayfield, Sussex, on 16 August 1963.[1] His papers, covering the period 1906 to 1955, are held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.[2] A portrait of Evans by Walter Stoneman, made in 1948, is held at the National Portrait Gallery, London.[9]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 0-85066-843-3
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  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Papers of Sir Geoffrey Evans". Bodleian Archives & Manuscripts. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  3. ^
    doi:10.1038/142563c0
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  4. ^ "Sir Geoffrey Evans". Kew Guild. 6 (50): 219. 1943. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  5. ISBN 978-1-920382-11-7
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  6. ^ "Kew Staff List". Kew Guild. 6 (50): 219. 31 December 1943. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  7. ISBN 1-86046-529-3
    . Retrieved 25 January 2014.
  8. The British Council
    . Retrieved 24 January 2014.
  9. ^ "Sir Geoffrey Evans". Collections. National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved 25 January 2014.
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