Benjamin Ifor Evans, Baron Evans of Hungershall (19 August 1899 – 28 August 1982), was a British academic and university administrator. He was Provost of

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from 1951 to 1966. He spent a year in the Middle East and reported on the state of English and English literature there in 1944. Accordingly, he reached the conclusion that the

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and the

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should do more to present English literature to men and women whose first language is not English. He published ''A Short History of English Literature'', 1940; reprint 1955. He was

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by HM The Queen at

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12 July 1955, and was created a life peer as Baron Evans of Hungershall, in the Borough of Royal Tunbridge Wells, on 25 August 1967.

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* 1899 births 1982 deaths Academics of University College London Provosts of University College London Knights Bachelor Life peers Life peers created by Elizabeth II {{life-peer-stub