William Beveridge
| The Lord Beveridge | |
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Lord Beveridge in 1943
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| Born |
5 March 1879 Bengal, Bangladesh, British India (now Bangladesh) |
| Died | 16 March 1963 (aged 84) Oxford, England. |
| Nationality | British |
| Education | Charterhouse School and Balliol College, Oxford. |
| Occupation | Economist, Social Scientist and academic |
| Known for | Work towards founding the welfare state in the United Kingdom. |
| Political party | Liberal Party |
| Spouse(s) | Jessy Janet Philip OBE (d. 1959) |
William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge KCB (5 March 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist, noted progressive and social reformer. He is best known for his 1942 report Social Insurance and Allied Services (known as the Beveridge Report) which served as the basis for the post-World War II welfare state put in place by the Labour government elected in 1945. He was considered an authority on unemployment insurance from early in his career, served under Winston Churchill on the Board of Trade as Director of the newly created labour exchanges and later as Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Food. He was Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1919 until 1937, when he was elected Master of University College, Oxford. Beveridge published widely on unemployment and social security, his most notable works being: Unemployment: A Problem of Industry (1909), Planning Under Socialism (1936), Full Employment in a Free Society (1944), Pillars of Security (1943), Power and Influence (1953), and A Defence of Free Learning (1959).
Beveridge, the eldest son of Henry Beveridge, an Indian Civil Service officer and District Judge, and scholar Annette Ackroyd, was born in Rangpur, British India (now Rangpur, Bangladesh), on 5 March 1879. His mother was a member of the Stourbridge Unitarian community who, along with another Unitarian, Elisabeth Malleson, had founded the Working Women's College in London's Queen Square in 1864. She met and married Henry Beveridge in Calcutta where she had gone in 1873 to open a school for native Indian girls.
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