Childhood
Evans was born to Welsh parents in Newton Heath, Manchester, where he attended Brookdale High School Newton Heath with the future Alfred, Lord Morris of Manchester, who nicknamed him "Poshie" because he was the only boy in the school whose father - a railway driver - owned an automobile.
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