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Name: John Evelyn
Birth Date: October 31, 1620
Death Date: February 3, 1706
Place of Birth: Wotton, Surrey, England
Place of Death: Wotton, Surrey, England
Nationality: English
Gender: Male
Occupations: author, diarist

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Biography of John Evelyn
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The English author John Evelyn (1620-1706) is remembered today for his diary. He was known to his contemporaries as the author of a number of treatises on gardening, engraving, pollution, coins, conservation of forests, and navigation. John Evelyn was...


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John Evelyn (October 311620 – February 27 1706) was an English writer, gardener and diarist. Evelyn's diaries are largely contemporaneous with those of the other noted diarist of the time, Samuel Pepys, and cast considerable light on the art, culture...


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Anglican and Episcopal History
John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity
03/01/2008: 946 words, approx. 3 pages
John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity. By Gillian Darley. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006, Pp. xiv, 382. $40.00.) John Evelyn, amateur scientist, architect, and urban planner, has received a good bit of scholarly attention recently. Frances Harris has anatomized his close...
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Death of John Evelyn.(Obituary)
02/01/2006: 421 words, approx. 1 pages
February 27th, 1706 AT THE AGE OF ELEVEN JOHN EVELYN began keeping notes for what eventually became his diary. Discovered long afterwards among his papers and published in 1818, it has been valued ever since for its eye-witness accounts of the Great...
 


 

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