Geoffrey Evans

Sir Geoffrey Evans CIE (1883–1963) was a botanist who was Economic Botanist and acting Director at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Early life Evans was born in Walmersley, near Bury, Lancashire, England, on 26 June 1883. He was educated in Bury, Lancashire, and at Downing College, Cambridge, where he received a Diploma in Agriculture in 1905. Career After working at the Agricultural Department of the University of Cambridge, he was in the Indian Agricultural Service from 1906 to 1923. From 1927 to 1938 he was Principal of the Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture in Trinidad, and worked from there in Australia, Fiji and New Guinea.