Evans, Charles Lovatt

It is not widely known that British interest in mustard gas preceded its use by German forces. Sir Charles Lovatt Evans worked on chemical warfare agents during World War I and it has been recorded in a biographical memoir (Lovett Evans, 1970) that ... 

Those shown include Sir OwenWansbrough-Jones, A.E. Childs, Sir Charles Lovatt Evans, Sir Harold Hartley, Sir Fredrick Baine, Professor D.D.Woods, Professor J.S. Kennedy, and Sir Paul Fildes. 

After suffering a stroke in 1968, Charles Lovatt Evans, who lived in the village of Winterslow, near Porton, moved into the Officers Mess De Burgh Daly, Gregory 1970, p. 248. 

Folder 2A/I, Exhibit MNJ/20/2, Proposal to Administer Anticholinesterase Agents by Intravenous Injection to Man (Ptn./IT. 4203/2714/57), 24 June 1957. PP- 53 9-The reconstituted Adrian Committee consisted of Lord Adrian, Lord Evans, Sir Charles Dodds, and Sir Rudolph Peters. See also TNA, WO32/20843, List of Members of Biology Committee (CDAB) J.H. Gaddum, PR. Allison, E. Boyland, F. Dickens, Lord Evans, Charles Lovatt Evans, Eloward Florey, WDM Paton, George Pickering, M.L. Rosenheim, R.H.S. Thompson, A. Wilson, H.J. Emeleus. 

De Burgh Daly, L, and R.A. Gregory, Charles Arthur Lovatt Evans, 1884—1968 , Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, 16 (1970), pp. 233—52. 

The key protagonist in the elucidation of the role of histamine and its clinical relevance in gastric secretion was Charlie Code. Code had grown up in Winnipeg and received an M.D. degree from the University of Manitoba in 1933. He worked at the Mayo Clinic with Frank AAann, then obtained support to study in London, where he first worked with Charles Lovatt Evans at the University College of London. In his further studies with Sir Henry Dale at the National Institutes for Medical Research, Code demonstrated that 70% to 100% of histamine in unclotted blood is in the white-cell layer, and that clotting liberates 60% to 90% of this into the serum. 

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