Sydney Edmund Tolchard Evans (20 September 1901 – 12 March 1978) was a British songwriter, composer, pianist and bandleader, whose works were popular from the 1920s to the 1960s.
He was born in West Kilburn, London, the son of Edmund George Evans and his wife Maud, née Tolchard.
[1] Evans started playing piano at the age of six, and studied orchestration and conducting with a view to becoming a classical musician, but in 1919 joined the staff of the Lawrence Wright popular music publishing company.
His songs also continued to be successful in Britain, with "Ev'rywhere" winning an Ivor Novello Award in 1955, and David Whitfield having UK hits with "My September Love" (1956) and "I'll Find You" (1957).
Tolchard Evans recorded an episode of the BBC radio interview programme Desert Island Discs in 1976, which was re-discovered in 2022.