Jeffrey Evans, 4th Baron Mountevans

Jeffrey Evans, 4th Baron Mountevans
Jeffrey Richard de Corban Evans, 4th Baron Mountevans, (born 13 May 1948), is a British hereditary peer and shipbroker, who served as Lord Mayor of London from 2015 to 2016.
Lord Mountevans represented the Ward of Cheap in the City of London as Alderman from 2007 until 2018, serving as Sheriff of London for 2012–2013, then Lord Mayor for 2015–2016. He sits in the House of Lords as an hereditary peer, being elected in the crossbench hereditary peers' by-election of July 2015, following the retirement of Viscount Tenby.
Biography
The younger son of Richard, 2nd Baron Mountevans, he succeeded to the family title in 2014, upon the death without issue of his elder brother Broke, 3rd Baron Mountevans.
Previously known as The Hon. Jeffrey Evans, he was educated at Pangbourne College before going up to Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read economics taking the degree of MA (Cantab).
Lord Mountevans speaks fluent Norwegian, as his paternal grandmother Elsa, Lady Mountevans (died 1963), hailed from Oslo. Her father was Richard Andvord, founder of Andvord Tybring-Gjedde.
He has served as Honorary President of Canning House since 2018.
City and shipping career
Lord Mountevans was a director of gas chartering with Clarkson plc until 2017, being a member of the Baltic Exchange. He served as Prime Warden of the Shipwrights' Company for 2006–2007 before his election as Alderman for the City Ward of Cheap in 2007, and was Sheriff of London for 2012–2013. At the Michaelmas Common Hall in 2015 he was elected to serve as Lord Mayor for the ensuing year, taking office on 13 November 2015. He is also a liveryman of the Goldsmiths' and World Traders' Companies.
His many charitable involvements include being a Trustee of Seafarers UK, a leading national maritime charity, President of the City of London Sea Cadets and a Council Member of the White Ensign Association, which offers advice to all ranks of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines on employment, pensions and other financial matters.
Since 2023, Lord Mountevans serves as Chairman of the Baltic Exchange.
Family
In 1972 he married Juliet née Wilson, daughter of the 2nd Baron Moran, and lives at Kensington, London W8.
Lord and Lady Mountevans have two sons: The Hon. Alexander Evans (born 1975), heir apparent to the peerage title, and The Hon. Julian Evans (born 1977).
Styles
Jeffrey Evans (1948–1958)
The Hon. Jeffrey Evans (1958–2007)
Alderman the Hon. Jeffrey Evans (2007–2014)
Alderman the Rt Hon. the Lord Mountevans (2014–2015)
The Rt Hon. Lord Mayor the Lord Mountevans (2015–2016)
Alderman the Rt Hon. the Lord Mountevans (2016–2018)
The Rt Hon. the Lord Mountevans (2018–present)
Honours
KJStJ (2015)
SBStJ (2013)
Hon. FICS (2013)
Arms
See also
Baron Mountevans
Baltic Exchange
Shipbroking
References
External links
The Lord Mountevans, Past Prime Warden Shipwright
Lord Mayor Mountevans' overseas programme
Profile of Lord Mountevans, hereditarypeers.com. Accessed 10 January 2023.
1948 births
Living people
People educated at Pangbourne College
Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
Shipbrokers
English financial businesspeople
Councilmen and Aldermen of the City of London
Knights of Justice of the Order of St John
Sheriffs of the City of London
People from Kensington
English people of Welsh descent
British people of Norwegian descent
English justices of the peace
Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
Crossbench hereditary peers
21st-century lord mayors of London
21st-century British politicians
Hereditary peers elected under the House of Lords Act 1999
Younger sons of barons