Background
EVANS, Richard was born on April 15, 1928 in British Honduras (now Belize). Son of late Edward Walter Evans and Anna Margaret Kirkpatrick Evans.
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EVANS, Richard was born on April 15, 1928 in British Honduras (now Belize). Son of late Edward Walter Evans and Anna Margaret Kirkpatrick Evans.
Dragon School, Oxford, Repton School,- and Magdalen College, Oxford.
Evans joined the Foreign Office in 1952. Before becoming ambassador to China, he had stationed in the British charge d"affaires office in Peking twice from 1955 to 1957 and from 1962 to 1964. During his ambassadorship, he also acted as the chief representative of the British delegation from the eighth to the twenty-second round of Sino-British negotiations over the sovereignty issue of Hong Kong.
In fact, much of the core negotiations had been done by his predecessor Sir Percy Cradock and therefore, the major mission of Evans and his team was to draft the clauses of the Joint Declaration with their Chinese counterparts within the limited timeframe.
The series of negotiations ultimately resulted in the formal signing of the Joint Declaration by the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and the Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang in Peking on 19 December 1984, a treaty confirming the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to China in 1997. Evans later participated in arranging a number of high-ranking official visits between the two nations.
One of them was the historic visit of Queen Elizabeth II to China in October 1986. In retirement, he wrote a biography of Chinese national leader Deng Xiaoping.
lieutenant was published in 1993 and was translated into Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Hungarian and other languages.
Order of Street Michael and Street George, 1983.
Institute Board of Advice, Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Banking Group.
Married Rosemary Grania Glen Birkett in 1973.