Geoffrey Evans (botanist)

After working at the Agricultural Department of the University of Cambridge,^[3] he was in the Indian Agricultural Service from 1906 to 1923.^[1][2] From 1927 to 1938 he was Principal of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad,^[3] and worked from there in Australia, Fiji and New Guinea.^[2]

Evans was a Member of the British Guiana Refugee Commission,^[2] a Member of the Commission on Higher Education in West Africa from 1942 to 1943^[4][5] and Chairman of the Commission for Settlement in British Guiana and British Honduras.^[2]

In 1938 Evans joined the staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew,^[6] where he was Economic Botanist (1938–1954) and, from 1941 to 1943, acting Director.^[1][2][7] He can be seen in the short colour film World Garden by cinematographer Geoffrey Unsworth in 1942.^[8]

He died at Mayfield, Sussex, on 16 August 1963.^[1] His papers, covering the period 1906 to 1955, are held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.^[2] A portrait of Evans by Walter Stoneman, made in 1948, is held at the National Portrait Gallery, London.^[9]