Arthur Humble Evans

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

[1] 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.

[2] He graduated MA from Clare College, Cambridge in 1879 in the Second Class of the Classic Tripos[3] later also gaining a doctorate (DSc).

His proposers were Sir Hugh Steuart Gladstone, George Muirhead, James Ritchie and William Eagle Clarke.