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About Dame Joan Evans
Dame Joan Evans, DBE FSA (22 June 1893 – 14 July 1977)[1] was a British historian of French and English mediaeval art, especially Early Modern and medieval jewellery. Her notable collection was bequeathed to the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.[2]
Joan Evans was born at Nash Mills, Apsley, Hertfordshire, the daughter of antiquarian and businessman Sir John Evans and his third wife, Maria Millington Lathbury (1856–1944). She was half-sister to Sir Arthur Evans, excavator of Knossos and discoverer of Minoan civilisation. Sir Arthur was forty two years her senior: he caused huge hilarity at an antiquarian conference of learned and erudite gentlemen when he brought in a four-year-old Joan to be "shown off".
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Dame Joan Evans's Timeline
| 1893 |
June 22, 1893
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| 1977 |
July 14, 1977
Age 84
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