Graham Evans, Baron Evans of Rainow
Lord Evans
Graham Evans is a local Cheshire man, born and raised for the first 20 years on a council estate in Poynton. His father was a wages clerk in engineering company and his mother was a bar maid. He attended his local comprehensive school, leaving with few qualifications, and worked in a nearby supermarket stacking shelves.
Graham went on to study for several years at night school as a mature student, graduating from Manchester Metropolitan University Business School with a Business Degree and Diploma in Marketing Management. He had a successful thirty year business career, working for NASDAC listed companies such as BAE Systems and Hewlett Packard latterly becoming a Company Director. He carried on with his studies at the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) gaining an MA from Kings College London in International Security Strategy.
He has always served his local community, spending four years as a Special Constable in the Cheshire Constabulary and ten years as a local Councillor and school governor in Macclesfield.
Graham was elected as Member of Parliament for Weaver Vale in 2010 2017, serving as Parliamentary Private Secretary to Sir Michael Fallon MP (2014-17), Secretary of State for Defence and contributed the Strategic Defence a Security Review (SDSR) 2015.
In 2022 Graham was Ennobled into the House of Lords as a Government Whip in Waiting to the Royal Household of King Charles III working in Department for Business and Trade, and the Department for Health and Social Care.
In his spare time Graham loves history (specialising in British 20th Century military, social, economic and political history) and has a good size library on the subject. He is also a keen sportsman, especially football and is a lifelong Manchester United supporter. On the Parliamentary side, Graham still plays for the Parliamentary Cricket, Rugby and Football teams and founded the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Running encouraging MPs to take up running and achieved 9 Marathons. Graham is the President of the All-Party Parliamentary Beer Group - Parliaments largest and most popular APPG!.
Above all, Graham is a family man, and loves spending time with his wife and three children, in the beautiful English countryside of Cheshire.