Evan Stanley Evans, the eldest son of David Evans, was born on 2 July 1904. There are no details of his early education before he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College. After qualifying in 1927 he was house surgeon at St Bartholomew's and later moved to Heatherwood Hospital, Ascot, where he became medical superintendent in 1932 before transferring to Queen Mary's Hospital for Children, Carshalton, in 1942. In 1946 he was appointed medical superintendent of the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital and College at Alton where he proved an ideal successor to Sir Henry Gauvain for he was especially interested in the orthopaedic diseases and disabilities of children. With the disappearance of the crippling sequelae of surgical tuberculosis, pyogenic osteomyelitis and poliomyelitis, the Lord Mayor Treloar Hospital became the regional centre for patients of all ages. At that time Stanley Evans relinquished the post of medical superintendent, becoming one of the enlarged team of consultant surgeons but continuing to supervise the training college which was not taken over by the NHS. Many years earlier he had shown his interest in the permanently disabled by helping to found the Cripples' Training College of London, planned originally for the vocational training of boys of school leaving age. He was closely associated with that college until his death and served as its medical superintendent for many years. Because the war years led to rapid expansion, with men disabled by war injuries being accepted for assessment and training, the College at Leatherhead was renamed the Queen Elizabeth Foundation for the Disabled in 1947. He had become its chairman in 1942 and continued in office until his retirement and election as president in 1980. During his long period as medical superintendent he is said to have interviewed personally some 4000 people with 'the object of matching ability to disability' and also 'seeking to assist the discouraged and despondent to believe in themselves.' During the same period he was equally active in assisting the trustees of the Lord Mayor Treloar Training College in providing comparable educational and vocational help and rehabilitation for some 260 boys and girls of school age. Stanley Evans also served as consulting orthopaedic surgeon to Farnham County Hospital and Morland Clinic, whilst his wide knowledge and wise leadership were much in demand by national bodies concerned with care of the disabled. He was on the councils and executive committees of the Central Council for the Disabled and the British Council of Rehabilitation as well as a ministerial advisory committee for the disabled. He was awarded the CBE in 1951 and chaired the World Congress of the International Society for the Disabled in 1957, in London. Apart from his vision and general concern for the disabled his warmhearted kindliness was admirably demonstrated in his gentle management of frightened children and his encouragement of frustrated adolescents. He had a delightful wit and sense of humour and was a loyal and true friend to many folk. Though not a prolific writer his published work included valuable papers on glandular tuberculosis and cerebral palsy. In 1934 he had married Muriel Gordon, youngest daughter of Peter Henderson, and they had five sons, two of whom are in practice as surgical consultants. His wife and family survived him when he died in his sleep on 27 August 1982.