Evan Evans (academic)

Evans served the City of Oxford as well as the University while head of his college, and on 9 December 1871 it was announced that he had been appointed an Oxfordshire Magistrate.

[7] During this period he granted the Randolph Hotel its first licence to serve alcohol, and received the key of the door when the work on the new Examination Schools was completed on 13 May 1882.

The sculpture over the High Street door of the Schools that shows the Vice-Chancellor awarding degrees (right) is understood to be modelled on Evans.

His eldest son had already left home: aged only 13, William Noble Evans was a naval cadet on board HMS Dapper at Townstall near Dartmouth, Devon.

His bride was 29 years his junior, and her father, who had been Vicar of Barnstaple at the time of her birth, was now Rector of Everdon and conducted the marriage.

He was now 77 and ill, with a nurse in residence, and Douglas Macleane wrote that towards the end "his failing powers curtailed his activity as Head of the college".