Howard Evans (other)
Howard Evans may refer to: * Howard Evans (journalist) (1839–1915), British Radical and Nonconformist journalist * Howard Ensign Evans (1919–2002), American entomologist * Howard Evans (musician) Howard Evans (29 February 1944 in Chard, Somerset – 17 March 2006), was a British trumpeter. Having played in the band of the Welsh Guards and the London Symphony Orchestra, Evans moved into theatre work. He was a member of the line-up of th ...

Howard Evans (journalist)
Howard Evans (1839–1915) was a British Radical and Nonconformist journalist. A. J. A. Morris has called Evans "an energetic, able journalist with pronounced nonconformist sympathies". Youth During his youth there was still a religious test for Oxbridge. One had to conform to the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England to study there. As he wrote in his autobiography: I wanted to go on and compete for an Oxford scholarship, but my father told me that if I wanted to go forward then I must conform to the Established Church. As he had brought me up to regard Cromwell and Milton and Bunyan as the great heroes of the Primitive Apostolic and Puritan faith, he was not surprised that I answered ‘Never! Never!’ Ever since then I have done my best to avenge that wrong, and have taken a keen delight in standing by other victims of priestly arrogance, which does the devil's work in the outraged name of the God of all goodness. Evans wrote in 1878 that "I believe firmly that in ...
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Howard Ensign Evans
Howard Ensign Evans (February 23, 1919 – July 18, 2002) was an American entomologist who was a specialist on wasps. He was also the author of several popular works on entomology including ''Life on a Little-known Planet'' (1978), ''The Pleasures of Entomology'' (1985) and ''Wasp Farm'' (1963). Early life Born in East Hartford, Connecticut, the son of Archie and Adella (Ensign) Evans, he developed an interest in natural history, and insects in particular, as a child on his parents' tobacco farm. He attended the University of Connecticut, where he studied English. He took an interest in biology after attending classes in entomology by J.A. Manter. His thesis was based on rearing insects from branches broken by a 1938 hurricane. He then began work on a Ph.D. at Cornell University, but this was interrupted by World War II. He chose to serve working as an army parasitologist, doing pioneering work on the ''Giardia'' parasite while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland. ''Giardia' ...
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