Alfred Edward Evill was born in Steeple Claydon, Buckinghamshire on 2 March 1862 and was articled to John Reginald Naylor (1854-1923) and George Hanson Sale (1857-1945) of Naylor & Sale in Derby. He then worked as an assistant to Basil Champneys (1842-1935) in London; to George Tunstal Redmayne (1840-1912) in Manchester; and to James Franklin Fuller (1835-1925) in Dublin.
He commenced independent practice in Manchester in 1902. In 1905 he was appointed Assistant Architect to Lancashire County Council for whom he designed several schools. He remained with the County Council for the rest of his career as an architect. He retired to Church Stretton in Shropshire in c.1927 and died on 17 April 1933. His address at the time of his death was given as Ferniehurst, Church Stretton, Shropshire
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 1: A-K. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001