Beveridge, William Henry (1879-1963), Baron Beveridge of Tuggal, was a British economist and author. He originated the Beveridge Plan for social security in Britain in 1941. It was designed to make want unnecessary under any circumstances. In his book Full Employment in a Free Society (1944), he said there should always be more jobs than workers, so everyone would have an opportunity to work. He was born in Rangpur, Bengal, India (now Bangladesh). He served as director of the London School of Economics and Political Science from 1919 to 1937, and as a Master of University College, Oxford, from 1937 to 1945.
