Trevor Evans

Sir Trevor Maldwyn Evans (21 February 1902 – 10 June 1981) was a Welsh journalist and the industrial correspondent for The Daily Express. Born in Abertridwr, Glamorganshire, he started life as a miner and electrician but entered journalism after losing his job during the 1921 miner's strike. Biography Evans was born in Abertridwr, Glamorgan on 21 February 1902. His father, Samuel Evans, was a police sergeant and his mother was Margaret Jones. He attended Pontypridd Grammar School until he was fifteen, when his father was killed in an accident at a railway crossing. Instead of training to become a teacher, he started work as a miner at the local mine. In 1921, he started training as an electrician during a miners strike, and attended night school. Soon after, he started training as to become a teacher while working as a freelance reporter for Glamorgan Free Press. Over the course of the following years, he worked multiple newspapers, Daily Dispatch in 1926, Daily Mail in 1928 and Daily Express in 1930. In the latter he became an editor. In 1930 he married Margaret Speers "Madge" Gribbin and they had two children together (Marilyn Butler and Richard Trevor Evans).