| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Honourable |
| The Lord Evershed | |
| Office1: | Master of the Rolls |
| Term Start1: | 1 June 1949 |
| Term End1: | 19 April 1962 |
| Predecessor1: | The Lord Greene |
| Successor1: | The Lord Denning |
| Successor: | The Lord Pearson |
| Birth Name: | Francis Raymond Evershed |
| Birth Date: | 8 August 1899 |
| Birth Place: | Stapenhill, Burton upon Trent |
| Death Date: | 3 October 1966 (aged 67) |
| Death Place: | St Andrews Hospital, Northampton |
| Nationality: | British |
| Spouse: | Cecily Elizabeth Joan Bennett |
| Alma Mater: | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Profession: | Barrister, Judge |
| Office: | Lord of Appeal in Ordinary |
| Termstart: | 19 April 1962 |
| Termend: | 10 January 1965 |
| Predecessor: | The Viscount Simonds |
Francis Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed, PC (8 August 1899 – 3 October 1966) was a British judge who served as Master of the Rolls, and subsequently became a Law Lord.[1]
Evershed was the son of Frank Evershed, a brewer and sportsman, and his wife Florence Helen, daughter of Thomas Lowe. He was educated at Clifton College[2] and Balliol College, Oxford. During the First World War he was a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers. In January 1923, he was called to the bar by Lincoln's Inn.[3] He then practiced at the Chancery bar.
Evershed was made a K.C. in 1933 and a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 1938. He became a High Court Judge in 1944 when he was knighted, and Lord Justice of Appeal in 1947, when he was also made a Privy Counsellor. Between 1949 and 1962, he was Master of the Rolls and served as the U.K. Member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague in 1950.[3]
He was raised to the peerage as Baron Evershed, of Stapenhill in the County of Derby, on 20 January 1956. In 1962, he was made a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary, and was succeeded as Master of the Rolls by Lord Denning. He retired in 1965.
Lord Evershed married Cecily Elizabeth Joan, daughter of Sir Charles Alan Bennett, in 1928. The title became extinct on his death in October 1966, aged 67.[3]