George Ewart Evans

George Ewart Evans
Born(1909-04-01)1 April 1909
Died11 January 1988(1988-01-11) (aged 78)
Occupation
  • Folklorist
  • writer
SpouseEllen Florence Knappett
ChildrenMatthew Evans, Baron Evans of Temple Guiting

George Ewart Evans (1 April 1909 – 11 January 1988) was a Welsh folklorist also known as a schoolteacher, writer, editor and sportsman.

Writing in both English and Welsh and known as a frequent broadcaster and lecturer, Evans was also a professional athlete and branch secretary of the Cambridge Communist Party. A dedicated collector of oral history and oral tradition in the East Anglian countryside from the 1940s to 1970s, Evans produced eleven books of collections of these materials.