Andrew David Gilroy Bevan (10 April 1928 – 12 October 1996) was a British Conservative politician. Bevan served on Birmingham City Council and later the West Midlands County Council from 1959 to 1981. He was Member of Parliament for Birmingham Yardley from 1979 until he lost the seat by 162 votes to future Labour minister Estelle Morris (now Baroness Morris of Yardley) in 1992. He was Chairman of the Parliamentary All-Party Tourism Committee and Chairman of the Conservative Parliamentary Backbench Tourism Committee for several successive parliaments until he lost his seat in 1992, and did much to promote the British tourism industry.

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