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Beveridge   /bˈɛvərɪdʒ/   Listen
Beveridge

noun
1.
British economist (born in India) whose report on social insurance provided the basis for most of the social legislation on which the welfare state in the United Kingdom is based (1879-1963).  Synonyms: First Baron Beveridge, William Henry Beveridge.






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"Beveridge" Quotes from Famous Books



... of time to them, and I am embracing that creed which alone is the scope to which they converge in their separate teachings; the creed which upholds the divinity of tradition with Laud, consent of Fathers with Beveridge, a visible Church with Bramhall, dogma with Bull, the authority of the Pope with Thorndike, penance with Taylor, prayers for the dead with Ussher, celibacy, asceticism, ecclesiastical discipline with Bingham. ...
— Loss and Gain - The Story of a Convert • John Henry Newman

... held in much veneration by the Church of Rome. The most learned writers fix their date at a period not more remote than the beginning of the fourth century. (See Cotelerius; vol. i. p. 194 and 424. Beveridge, in the same vol. p. 427. Conc. Gen. Florence, 1759, tom. i. p. 29 and 254.) I invite the reader {177} to examine both these documents, but especially the Constitutions, and to decide whether they do not contain strong and convincing evidence, ...
— Primitive Christian Worship • James Endell Tyler



Words linked to "Beveridge" :   economic expert, economist, William Henry Beveridge



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