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Hugh Beaver

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British engineer and businessman (1890–1967)

Sir Hugh Beaver KBE

Born	Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver 4 May 1890 Johannesburg, South Africa
Died	16 January 1967 (aged 76) London, England
Resting place	Holy Trinity Church, Penn Street
Alma mater	Wellington College, Berkshire
Occupation(s)	Engineer, industrialist
Years active	1931–1960
Board member of	The Guinness Book of World Records, Guinness Brewery

Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver,KBE (4 May 1890 – 16 January 1967)^[1] was an English-South African civil engineer, industrialist and bureaucrat, who founded theGuinness World Records (then known as Guinness Book of Records).^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] He was Director-General of theMinistry of Works and managing director atGuinness Brewery.

Biography

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Beaver was born on 4 May 1890 inJohannesburg,South Africa. He was educated atWellington College, Berkshire.^[8]

Beaver spent two years in the Indian police from 1910 and returned to England in 1921, joining the civil engineering firmSir Alexander Gibb & Partners, as the personal assistant ofSir Alexander Gibb. Upon the request of Canadian Prime MinisterR. B. Bennett, he led a mission toCanada developing Canadian harbours. He directed the reconstruction of the harbour ofSaint John inNew Brunswick after it was destroyed by a fire in 1931. He then became partner at Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, and worked mainly on factory building and the re-industrialisation of depressed areas in the UK.^[8]

DuringWorld War II he was Director-General in the newly formedMinistry of Works, and was in charge of the whole wartime programme of works.^[8]

Beaver wasknighted in 1943. After the war, he was a member of the New Towns Committee.^[8]

At Guinness

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Beaver joinedArthur Guinness Son & Co. (Guinness Brewery) in 1945 as assistant managing director. He was appointed managing director in November 1946. The brewery was modernised and the company's interests were widened under his direction.^[8]

Air pollution work and later life

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After theGreat Smog of 1952 Beaver was appointed as chair of the Committee on Air Pollution, known as theBeaver Committee, investigating the severe air pollution problem in London.^[9] In 1954 the committee reported results which led to effective action, in part due to a shift in public opinion.^[10]

He was Chairman of the Committee on Power Station Construction between 1952–1953, Chairman of theBritish Institute of Management between 1951–1954, Chairman of the Advisory Council of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research between 1954–1956, and President of theFederation of British Industries in 1957. He was also Director of theColonial Development Corporation.^[8]

Beaver was madeKnight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1956.^[8]

He was President of theRoyal Statistical Society between 1959–1960.^[11]

Beaver died of heart failure in London, United Kingdom on 16 January 1967.^[12]

Honours

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Knight Bachelor (1943)
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (1956)

References

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^"OBITUARY. Sir HUGH EYRE CAMBELL BEAUER, KBE, LLD, 1890-1967".Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers.38 (4):827–828. 1 December 1967.doi:10.1680/iicep.1967.8212.
^Heyworth (1 January 1967). "Sir Hugh Beaver, K.B.E".Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General).130 (4): 594.JSTOR 2982546.
^"Guinness Book of Records". Archived fromthe original on 1 July 2007. Retrieved6 February 2016.
^Richard Cavendish (August 2005). "Publication of the Guinness Book of Records: August 27th, 1955".History Today.55.
^"Guinness Book History 1950 - Present". Archived fromthe original on 13 May 2006. Retrieved8 May 2023.
^"BEAVER, Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell 1890-1967 Knight engineer and industrialist - Archives Hub".archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk. Retrieved30 July 2020.
^Strutt, Peter (1879)."Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver KBE | History, Monuments and Memorials of Penn". Retrieved30 July 2020.
^^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g"Presidents - Sir Hugh Beaver KBE: 1957—1959".Institution of Chemical Engineers. Archived fromthe original on 23 December 2022. Retrieved23 December 2022.
^Sheail, John (2002).An Environmental History of Twentieth-Century Britain. Basingstoke: Palgrave. pp. 247–8.ISBN 9780333949818.
^Florman, Samuel C. (1994).The existential pleasures of engineering (2nd ed.). New York: St. Martin's Griffin. p. 40.ISBN 978-0-312-14104-2.
^"Royal Statistical Society Presidents". Royal Statistical Society. Archived fromthe original on 17 March 2012. Retrieved6 August 2010.
^"Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver KBE".History, Monuments and Memorials of Holy Trinity, Penn Street. 1879. Archived fromthe original on 22 December 2022. Retrieved23 December 2022.

External links

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History of the Guinness World Records - Official Site
Catalogue of the papers of Sir Hugh Beaver atLondon School of Economics Archives
Portrait at the National Portrait gallery

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