Born on 2 May 1948 and educated in
North Wales at
Ruabon Grammar School, Evans read
Natural Sciences at
Churchill College, Cambridge taking a first class degree and obtained a
doctorate in
inorganic chemistry from
Imperial College London, working in the laboratory of Professor Sir
Geoffrey Wilkinson. He taught
chemistry at
St Paul's School, London and, in 1991, he was appointed as
Headmaster of
Bedford School, a position which he held until the summer of 2008. He was also appointed as a government advisor on education, from which post he retired in 1999, and was subsequently awarded an
OBE for his work. He was an appointed member of the council of the
Royal Society of Chemistry. ==Publications==