Tenniel Evans Tenniel Evans Walter Tenniel Evans (17 May 1926 – 10 June 2009) was a British actor and, latterly, clergyman. Walter Tenniel Evans was born in Nairobi, Kenya. His middle name derived from the illustrator Sir John Tenniel, a distant relation. His daughter, Serena Evans, is an actress, and his son, Matthew, is a television director. Tenniel Evans was a direct descendent of Isaac Evans, brother of George Eliot (born as Mary Ann Evans). Educated at Christ's Hospital, the University of St Andrews and the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, Evans is best known for his long-running role as Leading Seaman
Mary Ann Mantell Mary Ann Mantell Mary Ann Mantell ("née" Woodhouse; 1799 – 1847 or 9 April 1795 – ) is credited with the discovery of the first fossils of "Iguanodon", and provided several pen and ink sketches of the fossils for her husband, Gideon Mantell's, scientific description of "Iguanodon". In 1822, while Mary Ann Mantell was accompanying her husband to Surrey as he was visiting a patient, she discovered large tooth-shaped fossils on the side of the road. She presented these fossils to him. Her husband then proceeded to send Mary’s findings to Georges Cuvier, who then initially thought the teeth that