Sir Sidney Harold Evans, 1st Baronet, CMG, OBE (29 April 1911 – 21 April 1983) was a British journalist and civil servant who served as

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Harold Macmillan between 1957 and 1963.

Career

Evans served as a senior civil servant (public relations) in the

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, 1942–57. Evans was created a Baronet, of

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in the

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in 1963. In 1981, Hodder & Stoughton published Evans' diary, ''Downing Street Diary: The Macmillan Years, 1957-1963''.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Evans, Harold 1911 births 1983 deaths British civil servants Civil servants in the Colonial Office British diarists Press secretaries Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom British journalists Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George Officers of the Order of the British Empire British public relations people 20th-century diarists