About Harold Evans
Lived 1911 – 1983 (aged 71). Harold Evans was a British civil servant.
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.
Career 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.
In 1981, Hodder & Stoughton published Evans' diary, Downing Street Diary: The Macmillan Years, 1957-1963.
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Who was Harold Evans?
British civil servant
When was Harold Evans born?
Harold Evans was born on 29 April 1911.
When did Harold Evans die?
Harold Evans died on 21 April 1983.
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Harold Evans was a civil servant.
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Harold Evans was British.
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· DBpedia: Sir Harold Evans, 1st Baronet
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