Sydney Evans

Who is Sydney Evans?

Sydney Hall Evans CBE was the Dean of Salisbury in the Church of England from 1977 until his retirement in 1986.

Born on 23 July 1915 and educated at Bristol Grammar School and Durham University he was ordained to the priesthood in 1940. His first posts were curacies in Bishop Auckland and Ferryhill. He was then a Chaplain in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from 1943 to 1945. Following this he was Warden of King's College London's post-graduate college at Warminster and then Dean of the whole college until 1977 and his elevation to the Deanery. He died on 6 January 1988.