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==Biography==
Born in [[Edmonton, London|Edmonton]] in London,<ref>{{Cite news|first=Edward |last=Pearce |title=Obituary: David Evans |date=24 October 2008 |newspaper=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/oct/24/conservatives |archiveurl=https://
In 1960 Evans borrowed £500 to found his own industrial cleaning company, called Exclusive Office Cleaning, which later became Brengreen Holdings. He sold this for £32 million in 1986. Four years later, in 1990, he formed Broadreach, another industrial cleaning company, of which he was chairman for 12 years.
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From November 1984 to 15 June 1989, Evans was the chairman of [[Luton Town F.C.|Luton Town Football Club]]. The club played in the [[Football League First Division]] during Evans' tenure as chairman, and he presided over a controversial membership-only scheme for fans under which only members were allowed to attend matches at the club's home ground and away supporters were banned from the stadium. Evans served on the club's board of directors from 1976 to 22 May 1990 when he resigned.
Evans was also chairman of the [[Lord's Taverners]], along with being a member of the Finance and Administration Sub-Committee (1981–1986) and a member of the General Committee (1985–86) of [[Middlesex County Cricket Club]]. As a cricketer, he represented Hertfordshire in the [[Minor Counties]] Championship between 1967 and 1968, made two [[Friends Provident Trophy|Gillette Cup]] appearances for the team in 1969, scoring ten runs on his debut but a duck in his second match.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Players: David Evans |publisher=CricketArchive |url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/34/34595/34595.html |archiveurl=https://
Evans represented [[Welwyn Hatfield (UK Parliament constituency)|Welwyn Hatfield]] as the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Member of Parliament]] from 1987, until he lost his seat at the [[1997 United Kingdom general election|1997 general election]]. During his time as an MP, Evans was parliamentary private secretary to several government ministers, including [[John Redwood]] when he was Secretary of State for Wales. Evans was elected to the executive of the influential [[1922 Committee]] in 1993 and he remained there until leaving Parliament in 1997.<ref>name="Tele-Obit"> {{cite news|title=Obituaries: David Evans |date=22 October 2008 |newspaper=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3243154/David-Evans.html |archiveurl=https://
Shortly before losing his seat, in early March 1997, he attracted controversy over unguarded remarks in an interview by sixth-formers at Stanborough School for a school magazine in which he referred to his opponent as a "single girl" (she was 42 years old at the time) with "bastard children",<ref name="Times-Obit">{{Cite news|title=Obituaries: David Evans: businessman and MP for Welwyn Hatfield|date=23 October 2008|newspaper=[[The Times]] |url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4995325.ece|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505182143/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4995325.ece|archivedate=5 May 2009|deadurl=yes}}</ref> and claimed that the [[Birmingham Six]] were guilty and had "killed hundreds" before being caught, as well as making remarks considered racist, such as asking how the sixth-formers would feel if their daughter was raped by "some black bastard".<ref>{{Cite news|author=Brown, Colin |title=Major slaps down any Tory attempt to play race card |date=5 March 1997 |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/major-slaps-down-any-tory-attempt-to-play-race-card-1271054.html |archiveurl=https://
The Six won substantial damages from Evans in July 1998, who thereafter apologised for what he had said and promised never to repeat it.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Former MP says sorry to Six over 'guilty' remark.|date=10 July 1998|newspaper=The Birmingham Post|location=Birmingham, England|url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Former+MP+says+sorry+to+Six+over+'guilty'+remark.-a060772646}}</ref><ref name="Tele-Obit"> {{cite news|title=Obituaries: David Evans |date=22 October 2008 |newspaper=The Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3243154/David-Evans.html |archiveurl=https://
After losing his seat in Parliament, he continued to manage his industrial cleaning business, the Broadreach Group, which he sold in May 2002 for around £17 million.<ref name="Tele-Obit" />
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==Quotes==
*"Scarcely any ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' or ''[[The Independent|Independent]]'' article involving David Evans, former Tory MP for Welwyn and Hatfield, failed to mention his car-salesman's accent, a sound to chill the blood of any liberal—it seemed the incarnation of Thatcherite brutalism."<ref>{{Cite news|author=Mullan, John |date=17 June 1999 |title=Lost Voices |newspaper=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/1999/jun/18/features11.g22 |archiveurl=https://
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