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Rich Evans
Richard Evans may refer to: Artists * Richard Evans (designer) (born 1945), English artist for record album covers * Richard Evans (portrait painter) (1784–1871), English portrait-painter and copyist Entertainment * Dik Evans (born 1957), Irish rock guitarist * Richard Evans (AI researcher) (born 1969), video game developer * Richard Evans (actor) (1935–2021), American actor * Richard Evans (radio presenter) (born 1958), British radio presenter * Richard Bunger Evans (born 1942), American composer * Richard Evans (Canadian composer), Canadian television score and new age composer * Richard Evans, a character in the 1950 film '' State Penitentiary'' * Rich Evans III, actor and filmmaker Religion * R. C. Evans (1861–1921), Canadian leader in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints; led schism in 1918 * Richard L. Evans (1906–1971), American leader in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and radio announcer Sports * Dick Evans ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Evans (designer)
Richard Evans (born 30 March 1945, Wilmslow, Cheshire, England) is a graphic designer, art director and illustrator. He studied fashion and textile design at Nottingham School of Art and graphic design and illustration at Leicester College of Art. On leaving art school in 1968, he began what was to be a brief career as a fashion illustrator, mainly for teen magazines ''Petticoat'' and ''Honey'', published by Fleetway Publications. In 1971 he formed fashion footwear company Daisy Roots Shoes with a showroom in Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge, London and a retail shop in Harrods Way In boutique, designing and producing high fashion footwear for the hip rock generation featuring stacked heel and platform shoes and boots in brightly coloured leathers and exotic reptile skins. His footwear was favoured by the likes of Elton John, George Harrison, The Osmonds, Roxy Music, Redbone and Rory Gallagher. He worked as a graphic designer and illustrator in the mid- to late-1970s at design ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Evans (footballer, Born 1968)
Richard William Evans (born 12 April 1968) is a Welsh former professional footballer, who played as a winger. He is a member of the backroom staff with the Portugal national team. He previously played for several football clubs, including Cardiff City, Exeter City and Bristol Rovers. Evans is the son of former Swansea City and Wales international footballer Brian Evans. Career After retiring from playing professional football, Evans studied towards a Sports science BSc (Hons) at Loughborough University (1997–1999), and later a Physiotherapy BSc Hons at Brunel University (2002–2006). Speaking to the BBC Wales, he said: "I pursued a career in football after leaving school. When I got to the age of 27 and had played professional and semi-professional football I realised that football wasn't going to provide me with a living after I'd finished my days really. "So whilst I was playing at Lilleshall I did a treatment and management of injuries course held by the FA, and that's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Paul Evans
Richard Paul Evans (born October 11, 1962) is an American author, best known for writing '' The Christmas Box'' and, more recently, the Michael Vey series. Biography Evans graduated from Cottonwood High School in Murray City, Utah. He graduated with a B.A. degree from the University of Utah in 1984. While working as an advertising executive he wrote a Christmas story for his children. Unable to find a publisher or an agent, he self-published the work in 1993 as a paperback novella entitled ''The Christmas Box''. He distributed it to bookstores in his community. The book became a local bestseller, prompting Evans to publish the book in this region. The next year ''The Christmas Box'' hit #2 on ''The New York Times'' Best Seller list, inciting an auction for the publishing rights among the world's top publishing houses. Evans signed a publishing deal with Simon & Schuster, who paid him $4.2 million in an advance. Released in hardcover in 1995, ''The Christmas Box'' became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard J
Richard is a male given name. It originates, via Old French, from Old Frankish and is a compound of the words descending from Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic ''*rīk-'' 'ruler, leader, king' and ''*hardu-'' 'strong, brave, hardy', and it therefore means 'strong in rule'. Nicknames include "Richie", "Dick (nickname), Dick", "Dickon", "Dickie (name), Dickie", "Rich (given name), Rich", "Rick (given name), Rick", "Rico (name), Rico", "Ricky (given name), Ricky", and more. Richard is a common English (the name was introduced into England by the Normans), German and French male name. It's also used in many more languages, particularly Germanic, such as Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Icelandic, and Dutch, as well as other languages including Irish, Scottish, Welsh and Finnish. Richard is cognate with variants of the name in other European languages, such as the Swedish "Rickard", the Portuguese and Spanish "Ricardo" and the Italian "Riccardo" (see comprehensive variant list belo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Evans (Australian Politician)
Richard David Conroy Evans (born 7 September 1953) is an Australian writer and a former federal politician, peak industry body executive, and business and leadership consultant. Evans is an author in the emerging genre of Australian political and parliamentary thriller, with his first fiction novel – ''Deceit'' – published in July 2018. Evans served as a Liberal Party of Australia member in the Australian House of Representatives The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameralism, bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Australian Senate, Senate. Its composition and powers are set out in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. .... He was the member for Cowan from 1993 to 1998. From the late 1970s, Evans forged a successful career as a corporate executive and has led several national industry associations. He has served as the CEO of the Franchise Council of Australia, Executive Director of the Australian Retailers Associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Evans (businessman)
Sir Richard Harry Evans (also known as Dick Evans), (born 1942, Blackpool)''Who's Who'' is a British businessperson who is chairman of the Kazakh state holding company Samruk-Kazyna. He is formerly chairman of the British arms manufacturer BAE Systems. In 2001 he became Chancellor of the University of Central Lancashire. Evans was appointed a CBE in the 1986 Birthday Honours for services to export and was knighted in the 1996 Birthday Honours. Career Evans was educated at the Royal Masonic School in Bushey, Hertfordshire. In 1960, he joined the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation and was soon moved into the then newly formed Ministry of Technology. In 1967, Evans was appointed as Government Contracts Officer at Ferranti in Manchester and two years later joined British Aircraft Corporation (BAC) at Warton, Lancashire. He was promoted to Commercial Director of what had then become the Warton Division of British Aerospace (BAe) in 1978. Following BAe Aircraft Group man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Evans (journalist)
Richard Robert Ingham Evans (born February 10, 1939 in Paris, France) is a British sports journalist, author, and historian who is most closely associated with tennis. As a teenager he was educated at Canford School, a boarding school in Dorset. His journalistic career in tennis began at Wimbledon in 1960. He has written 23 books, including biographies of Ilie Nastase and John McEnroe, as well as serving the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) in several roles; as its first press officer in 1973, as European Director from 1974 to 1977, and on its Board of Directors from 1977 to 1979. In 1986 he was the third recipient of the ATP's Ron Bookman Media Excellence Award. In 2000 he was one of the founders of the International Tennis Writers' Association (ITWA), and served as its president from 2001 to 2004. In 2016, Evans stated that in his judgment Lew Hoad was the greatest player in the world before the emergence of Roger Federer, and "was without question the strongest man who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Evans (British Diplomat)
Sir Richard Mark Evans (; 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. Education Evans was educated at Repton School, a boarding independent school for boys in the village of Repton in Derbyshire, followed by Magdalen College, Oxford. Life and career Evans joined the Foreign Office in 1952. Before becoming ambassador to China, he was stationed in the British charge d'affaires office in Peking twice, from 1955 to 1957 and from 1962 to 1964. During his ambassadorship, he also acted as the chief representative of the British delegation from the eighth to the twenty-second round of Sino-British negotiations over the sovereignty issue of Hong Kong. In fact, much of the core negotiations had been done by his predecessor Sir Percy Cradock and therefore, th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Thomas Evans
Richard Thomas Evans (18 November 1890 – 20 July 1946) was a British Liberal Party politician. Before Parliament Evans was educated at the University of Wales. During the First World War he served in the 11th (2nd Gwent) Battalion, South Wales Borderers and attained the rank of captain. In 1918 he married Edith Rhys Williams. In 1923 he published the book ''Aspects of the Study of Society'', in the series Library of Philosophy and Religion. He was for a time a lecturer in economics at University College, Cardiff.The Times, 18.5.29 Parliamentary candidate Evans had fought the Carmarthenshire seat of Llanelly in the general elections of 1923, 1924 and 1929 but was on all three occasions unsuccessful, albeit having campaigned with energy and ability against a complacent Labour party. At the 1929 general election, Evans had hopes of a straight fight with Labour in Llanelly when the local Conservatives voted not to put up a candidate. However their decision was overturned by Conser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Evans (1811–1887)
Haydock Collieries were collieries situated in and around Haydock on the Lancashire Coalfield, England. The company which operated the collieries was Richard Evans & Co Ltd. Background The shallow coal measures in the area had been worked from at least the 18th century when the major landowners were the Leghs of Lyme. Around 1830, the collieries were run by Thomas Legh and William Turner and had a horse-drawn tramway connection to the Sankey Canal. Richard Evans (1778–1864), a printer from Paternoster Row in London, bought a share in Edge Green Colliery in Golborne in 1830. An explosion in May 1831 killed up to twelve workers and the following May another explosion killed another six. In 1831 the collieries were connected to the growing railway network by a branch line to the Warrington and Newton Railway at Newton Junction. Evans bought Legh's share off Turner and Legh's business, which then took the title Turner & Evans. When Turner died, in 1847, Evans acquired his shar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Evans (died 1762)
Richard Evans (died 1762) of Queenborough, Kent was a British army officer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1729 to 1754. Evans’ parentage is unknown, but a two-storey red brick house at 72 and 74 High Street, Queenborough, dating from the early 18th century, has a plaster plaque above the doors, bearing the date and initials '1706 ERE', possibly referring to Richard Evans and his wife. He joined the army and was a captain in Colonel Richard Sutton's Foot in 1709. He was on half-pay in 1713 and captain of Invalids for Portsmouth in 1715. From 1725 he was lieutenant governor of Sheerness, remaining in post for the rest of his life. He was mayor of Queenborough several times. Evans was returned as Member of Parliament for Queenborough on his own interest with government support at a by-election on 27 January 1729. He was returned again unopposed in 1734 and 1741 and in a contest in 1747. He was also able to secure the return of other government nominees an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
