Ernest Bevin

British labour leader, politician, and statesman (1881-1951)

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Born: 1881
Died: 1951
Works: 20

Top works

Forward democracy
Outline of the functions and work of the Ministry of labour and national service
The balance sheet of the future
The Britain I want to see
The job to be done

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Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: India
Active from: 2001-01-02

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Discography

Everything's Unfair2024
Summer Crush2025

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Listeners: 3
Total plays: 9

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5 total works indexed

Factor structure of the barratt impulsiveness scale
· 1995 · cited 5,591x
Layer-dependent ferromagnetism in a van der Waals crystal down to the monolayer limit
· 2017 · cited 5,546x
Revised American Thyroid Association Management Guidelines for Patients with Thyroid Nodules and Differentiated Thyroid Cancer
· 2009 · cited 5,462x
The CCPN data model for NMR spectroscopy: Development of a software pipeline
· 2005 · cited 3,159x
Accurate whole human genome sequencing using reversible terminator chemistry
· 2008 · cited 3,008x

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Quotes

“If the workers see themselves faced with defeat through starvation, they will prefer to go down fighting rather than fainting — and whether or not we leaders agree.”
“The most conservative man in the world is the British Trade Unionist when you want to change him.”
“It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.”
“If anyone asks me who was responsible for the British policy leading up to the war, I should, as a Labour man myself, make a confession and say: "All of us". We refused absolutely to face the facts. When the issue came of arming or rearming millions of people in this country...we refused to face the real issue at a critical moment. But what is the good of blaming anybody? We cannot make our action retrospective whatever we do. We have to start from now and try to do the best we can.”
“The fact of it is that all of us agreed to save 6d. in the Income Tax by breaking up the Army in peace-time and not having it prepared when war broke out...I will never be a party to it again.”
“So long as I have any power at all I will never be a party to treating the Army in the future as it has been treated in the past. They broke up in peace-time the very foundations of the Army structure, and expected to build it up during war-time with the enemy at the gates.”

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Key facts

Prime minister: Clement Attlee
Preceded by: The Viscount Addison
Succeeded by: Richard Stokes
Born: 9 March 1881, Winsford, Somerset , England
Died: 14 April 1951 (1951-04-14) (aged 70), London , England
Party: Labour
Spouse: Florence Anne Townley ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1906 )

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Commons category: Ernest Bevin
date of death: 1951-04-13
date of birth: 1881-03-09
name in native language: Ernest Bevin
P12749: Thomas Hickey

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Ernest Bevin (9 March 1881 – 14 April 1951) was a British statesman, trade union leader and Labour Party politician. He co-founded and served as General Secretary of the powerful Transport and General Workers' Union from 1922 to 1940 and served as Minister of Labour and National Service in the wartime coalition government. He succeeded in maximising the British labour supply for both the armed services and domestic industrial production with a minimum of strikes and disruption.

His most important role came as Foreign Secretary in the post-war Labour government, 1945–1951. He secured Marshall Aid, strongly opposed communism and was the main drive behind the creation of NATO. Bevin was also instrumental to the founding of the Information Research Department (IRD), a secret propaganda wing of the British Foreign Office, which specialised in disinformation, anti-communism and pro-colonial propaganda. Bevin played an important role in the end of the Mandate of Palestine and was strongly opposed to the establishment of the State of Israel. His biographer Alan Bullock said that Bevin "stands as the last of the line of foreign secretaries in the tradition created by Castlereagh, Canning and Palmerston in the first half of the 19th century".