Sir Harold Evans, 1st Baronet
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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.[1]
Evans was created a Baronet, of Rottingdean in the County of Sussex in 1963.[1]
In 1981, Hodder & Stoughton published Evans' diary, Downing Street Diary: The Macmillan Years, 1957-1963.[2][3]
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- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Evans, Sir Harold, (29 April 1911–21 April 1983)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u163979. Retrieved 2021-04-03.
- ^ Jump up to: a b Evans, Harold (1981). Downing Street Diary: The Macmillan Years, 1957-1963. Hodder and Stoughton. ISBN 978-0-340-25897-2.
- ^ "https://librarysearch.lse.ac.uk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=44LSE_ALMA_DS21104980050002021&vid=44LSE_VU1&lang=en_US&context=L". librarysearch.lse.ac.uk. Retrieved 2021-04-03. External link in
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