Charles Lovatt Evans

Sir Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans FRS (8 July 1884 - 29 August 1968) was a British physiologist who was vice-president of the Royal Society.

[1] Evans attended the Birmingham Municipal Technical School, and then sat as an external candidate for the University of London B.Sc.

Immediately after the examination in 1911 he was appointed a Sharpey Scholar in the Physiology Department of University College, sponsored by Professor Ernest Starling.

He then joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, and supervised anti-gas training in several units.

On demobilization in 1918 he was appointed to the Chair of Physiology and Pharmacology in Leeds University, and in 1919 to the Chair of Physiology at St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College; that year he also joined the National Institute for Medical Research.