Background
John Martin Evans was born in Cardiff, Wales, on Feb. 2, 1935. After a two-year stint
working in military intelligence for the Royal Air Force from 1953 to 1955, Evans attended
Oxford, where he received his BA in 1958 from Jesus College, and his MA and DPhil from
Merton College in 1963. At Oxford, his thesis advisor was Dame Helen Gardner, the doyenne of
17th-century studies. Under her guidance, he began a lifelong career in Milton studies.
Gardner was influential in other ways: She convinced Evans to apply to Stanford when the
academic job market in Britain was so poor that 250 scholars with doctorates in English were
competing for two university positions.
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