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Beveridge, Baron (UK, 1946 - 1963)

Creation: let.pat. 25 Jun 1946

Extinct: 16 Mar 1963

Family name: Beveridge

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Arms:

No arms recorded

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William Henry [Beveridge], 1st Baron Beveridge, KCB

son of Henry Beveridge ICS, of Pitfold, Shottermill, co. Surrey, by his wife Annette Ackroyd, dau. of William Ackroyd, of Stourbridge, co. Worcester

born

5 Mar 1879

mar.

15 Dec 1942 Janet Mair OBE (widow of David B Mair; d. 1959), dau. of William Philip, of Fife

died

s.p. 16 Mar 1963

created

25 Jun 1946 Baron Beveridge, of Tuggall in the County of Northumberland

note

Sub-Warden, Toynbee Hall 1903; barrister, Inner Temple 1904; entered the Civil Service 1908 and worked closely with David Lloyd George in laying foundations of social service legislation before 1914; Director of Employment Exchanges 1909-16; CB 1916; Director, London School of Economics 1919-37; KCB 1919; Master, University College, Oxford 1937-44; Chairman, Committee on Social Insurance and Allied Services 1941; almost the whole of his recommendations (the "Beveridge Report") regarding the social security system were accepted by the war time Coalition Government4and later constituted the framework of the Welfare State legislation; Member of Parliament (Liberal) for Berwick-upon-Tweed 1944-45; author of several books, of which the most important was Full Employment in a Free Society

On the death of the 1st Baron Beveridge the Barony of Beveridge became extinct.

 First written 19 Jul 2006

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