Colin Evans was a maxillofacial surgeon in Singapore. After initially studying dentistry, he proceeded to study medicine at the University of Aberdeen where he graduated MB, ChB in 1973 and proceeded to Guy’s Hospital in London for further training. He passed the fellowship of the college in 1977. In Singapore, he was a consultant maxillofacial surgeon at the Head, Neck, Nose and Ear Clinic of the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre. He was also visiting consultant surgeon to the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre and the American Hospital. Previously he had been professor of ENT- head and neck surgery at the National University of Malaysia and senior lecturer at the Institute of Laryngology, London and honorary consultant surgeon to the Royal National Ear Nose and Throat Hospital. He was a member of the British Association of Head and Neck Oncologists and the British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons. He was married to Anne née Lewis and, while living in Merthyr Tydfil in 1959, they had a daughter, Penelope, who is a journalist and author. On his retirement they went to live at Welsh-St-Donats in the Vale of Glamorgan, where he died on 4 September 2014 aged 81, survived by his wife, children and grandchildren.