William Arthur Evelyn MRCS LRCP (4 October 1860 – 6 January 1935) was a historian of York, England.

The Evelyn collection of photographs are now cared for by the Yorkshire Architectural and York Archaeological Society.

[3] On the 14th of June 1894 Evelyn married Constance Hardman in Reigate parish church.

Evelyn was a member of the Yorkshire Philosophical Society for over 37 years and served on its council from 1911 and as a Vice-President from 1923.

[5] Whilst at the YPS he served as an Honorary Curator of Archaeology at the Yorkshire Museum at the same time as Walter Harvey Brook, Thomas Boynton, George Benson, and Rev Canon John Solloway.

He used lantern slides of many of his pieces to illustrate public lectures on the history of the city.