Education
Churchill College; Imperial College London.
Churchill College; Imperial College London.
Born on 2 May 1948 and educated in North Wales, Doctor Philip Evans read Natural Sciences at Churchill College, Cambridge and obtained a doctorate in inorganic chemistry from Imperial College London, working in the laboratory of Professor Sir Geoffrey Wilkinson. He taught chemistry at Street 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 Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his work.
He is currently an appointed member of the council of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
