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| honorific_suffix = [[Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire|KBE]]
| name = Hugh Beaver
| honorific_prefix = [[Sir]]
| birth_name = Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver
| birth_date = 4 May 1890
| birth_place = [[Johannesburg, South Africa]]
| death_date = 16 January 1967 (aged 76)
| death_place = [[London]], England
| nationality = English, South African
| occupation = Engineer, industrialist
| years_active = 1931–1960
| boards = [[Guinness Book of Records|The Guinness Book of World Records]],<br/>[[Guinness Brewery]]
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| alma_mater = [[Wellington College, Berkshire]]
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'''Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver''', [[Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire|KBE]] (4 May 1890 – 16 January 1967)<ref>{{cite journal|title=OBITUARY. Sir HUGH EYRE CAMBELL BEAUER, KBE, LLD, 1890-1967.|date=1 December 1967|journal=Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers|volume=38|issue=4|pages=827–828|doi=10.1680/iicep.1967.8212}}</ref> was an English-South African engineer, industrialist, and founder of the ''[[Guinness World Records]]'' (then known as Guinness Book of Records).<ref>{{cite journal|jstor=2982546|title=Sir Hugh Beaver, K.B.E|last=Heyworth|date=1 January 1967|journal=Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General)|volume=130|issue=4|pages=594}}</ref><ref>http://www.london.gov.uk/mayor/environment/air_quality/docs/50_years_on.rtf{{Dead link|date=January 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>[http://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/the_college_pages/brief_college_history.htm College History] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061109231241/http://www.stcatz.ox.ac.uk/the_college_pages/brief_college_history.htm |date=9 November 2006 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search2?coll_id=5203&inst_id=1|title=AIM25 collection description}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rss.org.uk/site/cms/contentviewarticle.asp?article=486 |title=Royal Statistical Society Presidents |publisher=Royal Statistical Society |access-date=6 August 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317044817/http://www.rss.org.uk/site/cms/contentviewarticle.asp?article=486 |archive-date=17 March 2012 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://freespace.virgin.net/james.robertson/history2.htm |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-02-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070701200438/http://freespace.virgin.net/james.robertson/history2.htm |archive-date=1 July 2007 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref name="Cavendish2005">{{cite journal
|title=Publication of the Guinness Book of Records: August 27th, 1955
|author=Richard Cavendish
|journal=History Today
|volume=55
|date=August 2005
}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.brandchannel.com/features_profile.asp?pr_id=15 |title=brandchannel.com {{!}} Guinness World Records brand {{!}} brands {{!}} brand {{!}} branding news |access-date=31 December 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060628214037/http://www.brandchannel.com/features_profile.asp?pr_id=15 |archive-date=28 June 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://spyhunter007.com/spy_guinness_book_history.htm|title=Guinness Book History 1950 - Present}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=BEAVER, Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell 1890-1967 Knight engineer and industrialist - Archives Hub|url=https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb97-beaver|access-date=2020-07-30|website=archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://corporate.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.aspx |title=About Guinness World Records |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150821044202/http://corporate.guinnessworldrecords.com/index.aspx |archive-date=21 August 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Strutt|first=Peter|title=Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver KBE {{!}} History, Monuments and Memorials of Penn|url=https://www.pennchurch.uk/hugh-beaver/|access-date=2020-07-30|language=en-GB}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
*[https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/about-us/our-history History of the Guinness World Records - Official Site]
*[http://spyhunter007.com/spy_guinness_book_history.htm History of Guinness book of Records]
*[http://archives.lse.ac.uk/TreeBrowse.aspx?src=CalmView.Catalog&field=RefNo&key=BEAVER Catalogue] of the papers of Sir Hugh Beaver at [https://web.archive.org/web/20070618035533/http://www.lse.ac.uk/library/archive/Default.htm London School of Economics Archives]
*[https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw109405/Sir-Hugh-Eyre-Campbell-Beaver?LinkID=mp80064&role=sit&rNo=0 Portrait at the National Portrait gallery]

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