John Grosvenor Beevor

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John Grosvenor Beevor OBE (born March 1, 1905 in Newark-on-Trent , † February 26, 1987 in London ) was a British intelligence officer and manager.

Act

From January 1939 to December 1946, John G. Beevor served in the elite intelligence service Special Operations Executive (SOE); most recently in the temporary rank of lieutenant colonel .

In 1947 he became an advisor to the British delegation at the Marshall Plan Conference . He was the managing director of the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC), founded in 1948 , one of the organizations that inspired Robert Garner and other World Bank members to set up an organization to boost the economy in the former British colonial areas. From 1956 to 1964 he was Vice President of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and later a financial advisor there until 1974.

Beevor has held senior positions at many companies, including chairman at Doulton & Co. , director of Williams and Glyn's Bank and Glaxo Group , board member of the Overseas Development Institute , member of the North Thames Gas Board, and partner of Slaughter and May .

From 1933 to 1956 John G. Beevor was married to Carinthia Jane, née Waterfield (1911-1995), in their second marriage from 1957 to Mary Christine Grepe. One of his sons is the historian Antony Beevor .

Awards

Publications

  • John Grosvenor Beevor: SOE: Recollections and Reflections, 1940-1945 . Bodley Head, London 1981

literature

  • Beevor, John Grosvenor. In: The Bankers' Who's Who. Volume 1, Indian Business Publications, 1964, p. 107 ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • Beevor, John Grosvenor. In: Ruth Dinning: Leviathan - the Business Who's who. A Biographical Dictionary of Chairmen, Chief Executives and Managing Directors of British-registered Companies. Leviathan House, 1972, p. 32. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • Beevor, John Grosvenor. In: Margaret Connolly, Mervyn O. Pragnell: The International Yearbook and Statesman's Who's Who. Bowker British Library Kickout, 1975, p. 72. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  • Beevor, John Grosvenor. In: Mervyn O. Pragnell: The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's who. Kelly's Directories Limited, 1976, p. 67. ( limited preview in Google book search)
  • Beevor, John Grosvenor. In: Who was who. A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those Who Died. Volume 8, A. & C. Black, 1981, p. 53. ( limited preview in Google book search)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beevor, John Grosvenor. In: The Blue Book. 1970, p. 52. ( limited preview in Google Book search)
personal data
SURNAME Beevor, John Grosvenor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Beevor, John G .; Beevor, JG
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British intelligence officer, banker and business executive
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark-on-Trent
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1987
Place of death London