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Ifor Evans, Baron Evans of Hungershall

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The Lord Evans of Hungershall
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
25 August 1967 – 28 August 1982
Life peerage
Personal details
Born19 August 1899
Died28 August 1982
(aged 83)

(Benjamin) Ifor Evans, Baron Evans of Hungershall (19 August 1899 – 28 August 1982), was a British academic and university administrator. He was Provost of University College London from 1951 to 1966. He spent a year in the Middle East and reported on the state of English and English literature there in 1944. Accordingly, he reached the conclusion that the English Association and the British Council should do more to present English literature to men and women whose first language is not English.[1] He published A Short History of English Literature, 1940; reprint 1955.

He was knighted by HM The Queen at Buckingham Palace 12 July 1955,[2] and was created a life peer as Baron Evans of Hungershall, in the Borough of Royal Tunbridge Wells, on 25 August 1967.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Evans, B. Ifor (1 March 1944). "English and English Literature in the Middle East". English: Journal of the English Association. 5 (25): 16–18. doi:10.1093/english/5.25.16. ISSN 0013-8215.
  2. ^ "No. 40540". The London Gazette. 19 July 1955. pp. 4171–4172.
  3. ^ "No. 44394". The London Gazette. 25 August 1967. p. 9405.
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Academic offices
Preceded by Provost of University College London
1951–1966
Succeeded by