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LEICESTERSHIRE

DING 2012: “He was born at Compton Beauchamp, Brk. He attende the college school, at Gloucester, and in 1800 went to Oxford. He was a polyglot and could play several instruments. He taught Classics and History in the Royal Military College, Buck. and in Sandhurst and Britwell. From 1829 to his death he resided at Market Bosworth, Lei. His Leicestershire Words Phrases and Proverbs (1848) was edited and enlarged by his son Sebastian in 1881.”

WORKS

1848. Leicester Words, Phrases and Proverbs. London: William Pickering. SC. EDD.

1881. Leicester Words, Phrases and Proverbs. Collected by the Late Arthur Benoni Evans, D. D., Head Master of Market Bosworth Free Grammar School. Edited with additions and an introduction by Sebastian Evans, M.A., LL.D. London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Trübner and Co. SC. EDD.

KINGKONG PROJECT

Rev. Arthur Benoni EVANS (M: 1781 Mar 25 - 1854 Nov 8)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT HIS LIFE AND WORKS SEE

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Benoni_Evans

http://cdm16445.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p15407coll6/id/7962/rec/1

Boase, G. C. 2004. "Evans, Arthur Benoni (1781–1854)". rev. Mari G. Ellis. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: University Press, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8941, accessed 11 April 2015]

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Arthur Benoni Evans

(1781-1854)