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Dr Martin John Crossley Evans, born 8th August 1957, educated Willaston Church of England Primary School 1962-1968; Wellington Independent Grammar School, Bebington, 1968-1975; University of Bristol, (BA, Archaeology and Geology 1978, PhD Ecclesiastical History 1990); University of Keele, (Certificate of Education 1979); successively assistant master, Shrewsbury School, and Gresham's School, Holt; Warden of Manor Hall and Sinclair House, University of Bristol 1984-2018; quondam clerk to the Convocation of the University, and Assistant Secretary of the University 1989-2008, Historic Collections Officer of the University 2008-2017; Head Warden of the University 2008-2015; member of the Corps of Bedells from 1993-2018, and subsequently successively Deputy University Marshal, and Marshal; Fellow of the Geological Society of London, 1980; Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1994; former President of the Bristol Masonic Society 2000-2001 and of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society 2010-2011, and chairman of its publications committee; chairman, trustee or governor of various ecclesiastical charities in Bristol; JP (Bristol 1999-2017); MBE (2001, "services to higher education"); Warden of St Ewen and Deputy Church Warden of Christ Church, Broad Street, Bristol, 1995-present; editor of A Grand City (2008); Hannah More (1999, Bristol Branch of the Historical Association); various papers in refereed journals including:Journal of the Chester Archaeological Society; the Antiquaries Journal; Norfolk Archaeology; the Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Archaeological Society; the Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire; the Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society.

Interests: China particularly 1644-1912; the history of County Down in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; ecclesiastical history from the Reformation to 1914 ; poetry; literary history; Bristol church history 18th to 20th centuries.