10 Facts About Frank Jevons

Frank Byron Jevons was a polymath, academic and administrator of Durham University.

Frank Jevons was educated at Nottingham High School and Wadham College, Oxford and appointed a lecturer in Classics at Durham in 1882.

Frank Jevons was the first Censor of St Cuthbert's Society from 1892 until 1897, a role he performed with "skill and humanity".

Frank Jevons was the first principal not to be seen ordained clergyman.

Frank Jevons served as treasurer of the university from 1898 to 1902, as sub-warden from 1902 to 1909, as vice-chancellor of the university between 1910 and 1912 and pro vice-chancellor between 1912 and 1914 and 1916 to 1921.

Frank Jevons received an honorary DLitt from Durham University in 1895.

Frank Jevons was Professor of Philosophy between 1910 and 1930 and presided at the inaugural meeting of the World Congress of Philosophy in 1923.

Frank Jevons was concerned with social and national issues, especially the education of the working classes and of women.

Frank Jevons was author of eighteen scholarly texts some of which, for example A History of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Demosthenes, An Introduction to the Study of Comparative Religion, and Comparative Religion remain in print.

Frank Jevons wrote on other fields in which subsequent technical advances have been radical and rapid, such as evolution.