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Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver, KBE (4 May 1890 – 16 January 1967) was an English-South African civil engineer, industrialist and bureaucrat, who founded the Guinness World Records (then known as Guinness Book of Records).
…by British engineer and industrialist Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, to solve trivia questions among bar patrons. During the early 1950s Beaver was involved in a dispute during a shooting party about the fastest game bird in Europe; however, the answer could not be found…
Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver, KBE (4 May 1890 – 16 January 1967) was the founder of Guinness World Records.
Hugh Beaver was chairman of the Committee on Power Station Construction 1952–1953, where he advised on the Great Smog of 1952 in London. As a result of his advice on smog, he was made chairman of the Committee on Air Pollution 1953–1954, which resulted in the Clean Air Act 1956.
Sir Hugh Beaver KBE: 1957—1959. Hugh Beaver was educated at Wellington College on a Mathematical Scholarship and it was there that he developed an interest in the classics.
In 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, Guinness Brewery's managing director, was hunting in Ireland when he kept failing to shoot down a golden plover. To save face, he...
Nov 17, 2021 · The story begins with a South African-born English man named Sir Hugh Beaver. Born in Johannesburg in 1890, Sir Hugh was educated at Wellington College in Berkshire before embarking on a two year stint as a police officer in India.
