Richard Evans (British diplomat)

Sir Richard Evans
伊文思爵士
British Ambassador to the People's Republic of China
In office
January 1984 – May 1988
MonarchElizabeth II
Preceded bySir Percy Cradock
Succeeded bySir Alan Donald
Personal details
Born(1928-04-15)15 April 1928
British Honduras
Died24 August 2012(2012-08-24) (aged 84)
Wiltshire, England
EducationRepton School, Derbyshire
Alma materMagdalen College, Oxford

Sir Richard Mark Evans KCMG KCVO (Chinese: 伊文思爵士; 15 April 1928 – 24 August 2012) was a British diplomat who was the ambassador to the People's Republic of China from January 1984 to May 1988, during which he and Zhou Nan, the Chinese representative, initialled the Sino-British Joint Declaration on 26 September 1984.