William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (5 March 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist and social reformer. He is perhaps 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 Labour government's Welfare State, especially the National Health Service.
William Beveridge, the eldest son of Henry Beveridge, an Indian Civil Service officer an...
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William Henry Beveridge, 1st Baron Beveridge (5 March 1879 – 16 March 1963) was a British economist and social reformer. He is perhaps 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 Labour government's Welfare State, especially the National Health Service.
William Beveridge, the eldest son of Henry Beveridge, an Indian Civil Service officer and Annette, was born in Rangpur, British India’s Bengal (now Rangpur, Bangladesh), on 5 March 1879. After studying at Charterhouse School and Balliol College, Oxford, he became a lawyer.
Beveridge became interested in the social services and wrote about the subject for the Morning Post newspaper.
In 1908, now considered to be the United Kingdom's leading authority on unemployment insurance, he joined the Board of Trade, and helped organise the implementation of the national system of labour exchanges.
In 1909 Beveridge was appointed Director of...
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