Hugh Beaver
Books
- Five Days Without Sky London, 1952, and the Fog That Changed the World · Liszt Think
On December 5, 1952, an anticyclone trapped the smoke of a million coal fires over London. For five days, visibility fell to mere feet.
- The Telegraph from County Hall (6 December 1952, Afternoon)…m. What the senior civil servant did in the next hours would be examined, two years later, by the Committee on Air Pollution chaired by Sir Hugh Beaver. After the Great Smog of 1952, Beaver was appointed as chair of the Committee on Air Pollution, known as the Beaver Committee, investigatin…
- The Power Station’s Unceasing Furnace…tion existed nonetheless, documented in the parallel records that would later be examined by the Committee on Air Pollution, chaired by Sir Hugh Beaver—appointed after the Great Smog to investigate the severe air pollution problem in London—whose 1954 report would lead to effective action.…
- The Minister’s Statement…oved enough to absorb the shock of fuel transition without inflaming industrial unrest or middle-class tax resistance. The selection of Sir Hugh Beaver to chair the inquiry revealed the same strategic thinking that had shaped the ministerial words. Beaver was not a public health crusader bu…