Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting

The Right Honourable
The Lord Evans of Temple Guiting
CBE FRSA
Lord Evans in 2011
Lord-in-waiting
Government Whip
In office
13 June 2003 – 27 June 2007
Prime MinisterTony Blair
Preceded byThe Lord Davies of Oldham
Succeeded byThe Lord Truscott
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
In office
11 May 2000 – 6 July 2016
Life Peerage
Personal details
Born7 August 1941
Died6 July 2016(2016-07-06) (aged 74)
Political partyLabour
Spouse(s)
Elizabeth Mead
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(m. 1966; div. 1991)​

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(m. 1991)​
Children5
Parent(s)George Evans
Florence Knappett
Alma materLondon School of Economics
OccupationPolitician, book publisher
AwardsCBE (1998)

Matthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting, CBE, FRSA (7 August 1941 – 6 July 2016), was a British Labour Party politician. Evans' father was the writer George Ewart Evans.

Background and career

The son of George Ewart Evans and Florence Ellen Knappett, he was educated at Friends' School, Saffron Walden, Essex, before reading Economics at the London School of Economics, graduating B.Sc.Econ. He initially worked as a bookseller before at the age of 23 joining the publisher Faber and Faber,[1] where by the age of 30 he had risen to become the company's managing director (1971–73) and subsequently chairman.[2] He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) in 1990. Evans also served as a governor of the British Film Institute and in 1999 was appointed the first chairman of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council.[3]

Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 1998 Birthday Honours,[4] Evans was created a Life Peer on 11 May 2000 as Baron Evans of Temple Guiting, of Temple Guiting in the County of Gloucestershire.[5] In the House of Lords, he served as a Government Whip from 2002 to 2007, and a Spokesman for the Department for Constitutional Affairs from 2003. Also a Spokesman for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Department for Work and Pensions, and the Treasury, Lord Evans left the Government in October 2007 to join Swiss Bank EFG International.

Personal life

Evans married Elizabeth Mead in 1966 divorcing in 1991 when he married literary agent Caroline Michel, with whom he remained until their separation in 2010.[6] He had two sons by his first wife, and two sons and a daughter by his second wife.

Lord Evans died on the morning of 6 July 2016 after a long illness.[7]

References

  1. ^ "The Power Couples (Section 4); CAROLINE MICHEL & MATTHEW EVANS – Publishing's Golden Couple", The Evening Standard, 27 April 2007.
  2. ^ Matthew Evans, "TS Eliot — Guru-in-chief", The Guardian, 6 June 2009.
  3. ^ "Matthew Evans becomes first Chairman of new Museums, Libraries and Archives Council"[usurped], Government News, 10 August 1999.
  4. ^ "No. 55155". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 1998. p. 8.
  5. ^ "No. 55850". The London Gazette. 17 May 2000. p. 5420.
  6. ^ Robert McCrum, "Lord Evans of Temple Guiting obituary", The Guardian, 7 July 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2023.
  7. ^ Mark Brown, "Publisher Matthew Evans, former Faber and Faber boss, dies aged 74 ", The Guardian, 6 July 2016.

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