Sir Harold Evans, 1st Baronet | |
Office: | Downing Street Press Secretary |
Term Start: | 1957 |
Predecessor: | Alfred Richardson |
Successor: | John Groves |
Primeminister: | Alec Douglas-Home |
Term End: | 1963 |
Birth Name: | Sidney Harold Evans |
Birth Date: | 29 April 1911 |
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]
Evans served as a senior civil servant (public relations) in the Colonial Office, 1942–57.
Evans was created a Baronet, of Rottingdean in the County of Sussex in 1963.[3]
In 1981, Hodder & Stoughton published Evans' diary, Downing Street Diary: The Macmillan Years, 1957-1963.[4]