Dick Evans (politician)

Richard Kelynack Evans, DFC (3 April 1922 – 5 June 2008) was an Australian politician who was born in Sydney to grazier Robert Fitzgerald Evans and Helen Madge Kelynack.

He was educated at The King's School in Parramatta and became a grazier at Rylstone, with additional property in Queensland.

From 1941 to 1945 he served in the Royal Australian Air Force as a fighter pilot, being awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1945.

In 1969 he was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Council as a Liberal Party member; he served until 1978.

His first marriage took place on 3 April 1946 and was to Joan Fawcett, with whom he would have five children.