Ian Evans was born in the city of Bath, England, a place enjoyed by and known to the Romans as Aquae Sulis. His parents were both Scots, despite the Welsh name, and probably descendants of the Scoti, one of the villains of this story. When he was a child, his family moved to Johannesburg, South Africa. He attended St John's College, which tried desperately - and ultimately failed - to teach him Latin, which is regrettable in the current context. His enjoyment of history, however, and his mother-inspired coin collection sustained interest in the four hundred years that Britain was a significant province of the mighty Roman Empire. At the University of the Witwatersrand, he majored in history and psychology, then returned to England for his PhD in experimental and clinical psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London.
