Sir Harold Evans, 1st Baronet

British civil servant

Sir Harold Evans, 1st Baronet CMG OBE
Sir Harold Evans in 1964

Downing Street Press Secretary
In office 1957–1963
Prime Minister	Alec Douglas-Home
Preceded by	Alfred Richardson
Succeeded by	John Groves

Personal details
Born	Sidney Harold Evans (1911-04-29)29 April 1911
Died	21 April 1983(1983-04-21) (aged 71)

Sir Sidney Harold Evans, 1st Baronet, CMG, OBE (29 April 1911 – 21 April 1983) was a British journalist and civil servant who served as Downing Street Press Secretary to Prime Minister Harold Macmillan between 1957 and 1963.^[1]^[2]

Career

Evans served as a senior civil servant (public relations) in the Colonial Office, 1942–57.^[3]

Evans was created a Baronet, of Rottingdean in the County of Sussex in 1963.^[4]

In 1981, Hodder & Stoughton published Evans' diary, Downing Street Diary: The Macmillan Years, 1957-1963.^[2]^[5]

References

^ "Evans, Sir Harold, (29 April 1911–21 April 1983)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u163979. ISBN 978-0-19-954089-1. Retrieved 3 April 2021.
^ ^a ^b Evans, Harold (1981). Downing Street Diary: The Macmillan Years, 1957-1963. Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-25897-2.
^ "No. 41089". The London Gazette. 13 June 1957. p. 3371.
^ "Deaths: Lady Evans, widow of Sir Harold Evans, 1st and last Baronet". Daily Telegraph. 6 July 2006.
^ "Downing Street Diary: The Macmillan Years, 1957-1963". librarysearch.lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 3 April 2021.

Baronetage of the United Kingdom
New creation	Baronet (of Rottingdean) 1963–1983	Extinct
Government offices
Preceded by Alfred Richardson	Downing Street Press Secretary 1957-1963	Succeeded by John Groves