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William Bevan
b. 1864
Known for a practical early-20th-century study of Cypriot farming, this writer focused on the island’s crops, soils, and rural industries in clear, useful detail. His work reads less like literary display and more like a careful field report for readers interested in how agriculture actually worked.
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Notes on agriculture in Cyprus and its products
by William Bevan
About the author
William Bevan, born in 1864, is chiefly associated with Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products, published in 1919. In that book, he identifies himself as W. Bevan and Director of Agriculture, Cyprus, and he sets out to gather scattered information about the island’s farming into one accessible volume.
His writing is practical and observational rather than personal. The book surveys climate, soils, crops, livestock, and related rural industries, suggesting a writer deeply concerned with agriculture as both a scientific and economic subject.
Very little confidently sourced biographical information about his wider life was available in the materials I could verify here. Because of that, the clearest picture of Bevan comes through his work itself: a concise, informative author whose surviving reputation rests on documenting agriculture in Cyprus with care and clarity.