Francis Evans (diplomat)

Sir Francis Edward Evans

civil service in 1919, and the following year completed a course for new consular entrants at the London School of Economics

.

Between 1920 and 1926 Evans was the British vice-consul at

Foreign Office

he returned to New York as consul general there, an appointment he held until 1950.

In 1951 Evans became under-secretary of state at the Foreign Office, and the following year he was appointed British ambassador to Israel, having become minister there the previous year. This was immediately followed in 1954 by his appointment as ambassador to Argentina, a post he held for three years before retiring.

From 1957 to 1965, Sir Francis was chairman of the Northern Ireland Development Council, and from 1962 and 1966 he also served as the agent for the

University of Ulster and Ripon College, Wisconsin, and was a deputy lieutenant

of Belfast.

For many years Sir Francis served on the Board of Governors of his old school Belfast Royal Academy.

Sir Francis's wife, Mary, Lady Evans, whom he married in 1920, died in 1976. Sir Francis died seven years later. There were no children of the marriage.