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.