Born 3 September 1871, the younger son of Worthington Evans (1827-1901) of York Terrace, Regent's Park, London, and his second wife, Susanna Jane, daughter of James Laming of Birchington Hall, Kent. The family derived from Thomas Evans of Tyreymynech, Guilsfield, Montgomery, who died in 1742. An elder half-brother of E L Evans died in infancy; he had two half-sisters and a brother and sister; his father; married a third time in old age. His elder brother Sir Worthington Laming Worthington-Evans (1868-1931), who assumed the double surname by Royal licence in 1916, was a prominent politician; he was MP for Colchester 1910-29, and Secretary of State for War 1921-22 and 1924-29; he was created a baronet in 1916, a Privy Councillor in 1918, and a GBE in 1922. Evans was educated at Eastbourne College, and at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was placed in the second class of the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part I, 1892. He received his clinical training at St Bartholomew's, where he served as house surgeon, and was then a resident at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital in Hanover Square, and was assistant bacteriologist in the joint laboratory of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons. For two years he was in general practice at Hampstead, London, NW. He then went to the South African war on the surgical staff, and later as physician, of the Welsh Hospital, and won the Queen's medal with three clasps. He had much experience in the treatment of typhoid fever; this he described in his thesis for the Cambridge doctorate, which was awarded the Raymond Horton-Smith prize by the University 1902. Coming home from the war he was elected surgeon in 1902 to the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital. It amalgamated in 1905 with the National and City Orthopaedic Hospitals to form the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, which Evans served with great loyalty throughout his life, becoming eventually emeritus surgeon and acting for a time as chairman of its Medical Board. He retired in 1936, but returned to his hospital work during the war from 1939 to 1944. Evans was also consulting surgeon for orthopaedic cases at the West End Hospital for Nervous Diseases, and consulting orthopaedic surgeon to the British Postgraduate Medical School, to King Edward's Hospital, Ealing, and to the Industrial Home for Crippled Boys, and was surgeon to the Royal Surgical Aid Society. For his work in military hospitals during the war of 1914-18 he was created CBE 1920. Evans served as vice-president of the orthopaedic section at the Bradford meeting of the British Medical Association in 1924, and as sectional president at the Winnipeg meeting 1930. He was president of the orthopaedic section of the Royal Society of Medicine, and president of the Harveian Society. Evans learned his specialty in the days when great patience was expended on elaborate manipulative treatment, and though he did much to introduce more drastic operative procedures he always favoured the old-fashioned methods, after they had been dropped by his younger colleagues. He was a careful and painstaking surgeon, and an excellent teacher. He was particularly interested in congenital dislocation of the hip and an early advocate in England of the treatment by manipulation and plaster cast, introduced by Adolf Lorenz (1854-1946) of Vienna in his *Pathologie und Therapie der angeborenen Hüftverrenkung* 1895. Evans married on 1 August 1911 Vivien, only daughter of Hugh Lloyd Roberts, CB, barrister-at-law, who survived him, but without children. He died at Sidmouth, aged 73, on 5 April 1945. He had practised at 33 Portland Place, W, with a country house at Broadham End, Oxted, Surrey. He bequeathed the ultimate residue of his fortune to the College, or, if it refused, then to the University of Cambridge, the income to be applied for the advancement of and research into orthopaedic surgery. Mrs Evans, who died on 28 November 1946, left £20,743 to form this research fund, and the Council of the College instituted a research scholarship to be known as the Laming Evans Fellowship. Evans served as master, secretary, and almoner of the Rahere Masonic Lodge of St Bartholomew's Hospital. He was a member of the Royal Mid-Surrey and Tandridge golf clubs, and was an alpine-climber and skier. Publications:- Late results of manipulative treatment of congenital dislocation of the hip. *Brit J Surg*. 1922, 10, 15. Astragalectomy, in *The Robert Jones Birthday Volume*, edited by H A T Fairbank. Oxford, 1928, pp 375-94.