The Bahamas Beautillion Committee has named Evan R. Davis, a 2026 graduate of Queen’s College, Gentleman of the Year at the 35th Annual Gentlemen’s Club Graduation, held Saturday, June 6th, 2026 at Baha Mar, Cable Beach. The distinction is the programme’s highest individual honour, awarded to the young man whose performance across the full programme best exemplifies the values of The Gentlemen’s Club.
Gentleman of the Year is not decided in a single evening. It is earned through sustained, measured performance across a demanding multi-month schedule — advertisement and sponsorship sales in support of the Club’s scholarship programme, placement in the Toastmasters speech competition, punctuality, and attendance at every workshop and cultural event. Davis rose to the top of a 58-member cohort drawn from secondary schools across New Providence.
Sponsored by the Delta Lambda Boule of Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, The Gentlemen’s Club prepares graduating young men for university and professional life through workshops in leadership, public speaking, financial literacy, etiquette, law, health, and college readiness — facilitated by national figures including Chief Justice Ian Winder, Toastmasters Club 1600, and leading Bahamian professionals in medicine, finance, and business.
The award caps a distinguished secondary school career. Davis graduated from Queen’s College with honours on the Principal’s Honour Roll, and enters university having already worked in professional finance: he completed a Junior Accountant internship at Baker Tilly — a top-10 global accounting network — in the summer before his senior year, and holds a Pittman Qualification in Accounts with a First Class Pass. He served as Class Accountant, represented Queen’s College on the soccer team, and volunteered with the Bahamas Humane Society, Bilney Lane Children’s Home, and the Ranfurly Home clothing drive, among other community initiatives. He will pursue a Bachelor of Science in Actuarial Science.
Representing Queen’s College alongside Davis in the 2026 cohort were Ricardo Ferguson II, Kaden Hart, and Tayshaun Taylor, with Queen’s College also recognised for its strong showing at this year’s competition.
“The Gentlemen’s Club is a programme that comes with high demand. The programme asks that you show up on time every Saturday, mentally and physically prepared to carry yourself in a way that reflects the man you want to become. I’m deeply grateful to the Beautillion Committee, the administrators of The Gentlemen’s Club, and Toastmasters Club 1600 for their investment in us as young men, to ensure that we are able to fulfil the potential that they can see in us. I am also thankful to each and every sponsor that contributed to my ad campaign,” said Davis.
“Evan represents exactly what this programme was built to produce: discipline, character, and excellence. The Gentlemen’s Club exists so that young Bahamian men enter the world ready to lead,” said Mr. Lamon Stubbs of The Bahamas Beautillion Committee.
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