Hilary Evans

Hilary & Mary Evans

Hilary Agard Evans (6 March 1929 – 27 July 2011)[1] was a British pictorial archivist, author, and researcher into UFOs and other paranormal phenomena.[2]

Biography

Evans was born in Shrewsbury, United Kingdom[3] and educated at St George’s School at Harpenden. After National Service in Palestine he went up to King’s College, Cambridge, to read English, followed by a Master’s at Birmingham University. He then spent some time as a private tutor before joining Mather & Crowther advertising agency as a copywriter in 1953.

In 1964 he and his wife Mary Evans (1936–2010) founded the Mary Evans Picture Library,[4] an archive of historical illustrations.[5] In 1981 he co-founded the Association for the Scientific Study of Anomalous Phenomena.[6][7]

Evans was an exponent of the Psychosocial Hypothesis of UFOs as culturally shaped visionary experiences.[8]

Books published

References

  1. Coleman, Loren. "Hilary Evans Obituary". Cryptomundo.
  2. Grossman, Wendy M (16 August 2011). "Hilary Evans obituary". The Guardian (UK). Retrieved 23 October 2013.
  3. Ernest Kay The International authors and writers who's who, Volumes 2001-2002, Cambridge, 7th ed., 1976 p. 180
  4. Mary Evans Picture Library FAQs
  5. Lydia Thornley & Valentine Evans, Mary Evans Picture Library: visual documentation of the past, London : The Beacon Press, 1995
  6. Evans, Hilary, and John Spencer, eds. Phenomena: Forty Years of Flying Saucers. New York: Avon Books, 1989, p.409
  7. David Morrow, Close encounters of the street lamp kind, The Independent Life & Style, Thursday, 31 August 1995
  8. Jerome Clark, Encyclopedia of strange and unexplained physical phenomena, Thomson Gale Press, 1993, ISBN 0-8103-8843-X ISBN 978-0810388437 p.329

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