Nicholas Evans

1950–2022

2 standalone books

Nicholas Benbow Evans was born in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, to Anthony Evans, director of a motor engineering company, and Eileen, née Whitehouse. He attended Bromsgrove School, where he was head boy. After a year teaching in Senegal with the charity Voluntary Service Overseas, he earned a first in law from St. Edmund Hall, Oxford. He worked as a reporter for the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Evening Chronicle before joining London Weekend Television, where he contributed to programs such as Weekend World and The London Programme. He also wrote and adapted screenplays for television. Evans married Oxford classmate Jenny Lyon in 1973; they had two children and divorced in the 1990s. He later married singer-songwriter Charlotte Gordon Cumming, with whom he had one child. He also had a child from a relationship with television producer Jane Hewland. In September 2008, Evans, Cumming, and several relatives were poisoned after consuming webcap mushrooms in Morayshire. They required kidney dialysis, and Evans received a transplant in 2011 from his daughter. He died from a heart attack at his home on 9 August 2022, aged 72. The location of his death was reported differently by media sources.

Born

1950