Robert Henry Evans

In the novel The Sittaford Mystery, Robert Henry Evans is Captain Trevelyan's manservant. An ex- seaman, Evans cooked and attended to most domestic duties for the captain as he hated female servants. Some two months before the events in the book, Evans married Rebecca, the daughter of Mrs J. Belling, the proprietor of The Three Crowns inn. The captain had been very upset by this. Evans had hoped that he and his wife could serve Captain Trevelyan together but the Captain flatly refused.

At the time of the events in the book, the Captain lived alone at Hazelmoor in Exhampton while Evans lived seperately with his wife at nearby at 85 Fore Street. He came in daily to save Captain Trevelyan and was usually dismissed by the afternoon.

Inspector Narracott observed that Evans was "a short thick-set man. He had very long arms and a habit of standing with his hands half clenched". He was clean shaven with "small, rather piglike eyes". He looked cheerful, efficient and intelligent.