Glen Evans

Glen Evans (22 April 1936 – 24 August 2016) full name Thomas Glendwr Gardner Evans) was the mayor of Lower Hutt in the Wellington region of New Zealand from 1986 to 1995. He received the New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal.

He was on the Hutt City Council from 1974 to 1977, and was on the Greater Wellington Regional Council from 1986 to 1992. He was also on the Stokes Valley Licensing Trust. His legacy achievements were flood protection schemes including the replacement of the Ewen Bridge, the ring road system and the revitalisation of Jackson Street, Petone and in 1989 the incorporation of areas like Eastbourne, Petone and Wainuiomata with Lower Hutt. In the 1990s there was controversy over the escalating cost of the Queens Drive parking building. ^[1]

He was born in Bedford, England of New Zealand parents. His father was later in the British colonial service in Ceylon. He was educated at Palmerston North Boys' High School then Otago University and Victoria University of Wellington where he graduated in law. He was a barrister and solicitor from 1961, specialising in environmental law. He married Barbara Cunningham in 1959; and is survived by their three children Laurence, Michael and Geoffrey.

References

1. "Obituary: Mayor relished protecting and promoting Lower Hutt". The Dominion Post. Wellington. 2016-11-12. p. c6.

• New Zealand Who’s Who Aotearoa, edited by Alister Taylor p 321 (2001, Alister Taylor Publishing) ISSN 1172-9813
• Hutt News, 4 November 1986
• http://www.huttcity.govt.nz/