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J. O. (James Oliver) Bevan
1843–1930
A Welsh-born writer and scholar whose books ranged widely across religion, archaeology, and the ancient world, bringing serious subjects to general readers. He is best remembered today for works such as The Towns of Roman Britain and The Birth and Growth of Toleration.
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The Towns of Roman Britain
by J. O. (James Oliver) Bevan
About the author
Born in Cardiff in 1843, James Oliver Bevan wrote under the name J. O. Bevan and published a varied body of nonfiction across the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Surviving library and ebook records show him writing on Roman Britain, Egypt, church history, and the English Bible, suggesting an author with broad historical and religious interests.
One of his best-known books is The Towns of Roman Britain, and records of his other works include The Birth and Growth of Toleration, Egypt and the Egyptians, and an archaeological survey of Herefordshire. The title page of The Towns of Roman Britain presents him as the Rev. J. O. Bevan and lists academic and learned-society affiliations, pointing to a career shaped by both scholarship and clerical life.
Available genealogical records identify him as born on December 1, 1843, in Cardiff and dying on February 15, 1930, in Eastbourne, Sussex. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found during this search.