Aneurin Bevan PC (; Welsh: [aˈnəɨ.rɪn]; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960), often known as Nye Bevan, was a Welsh Labour Party politician. Born into a working-class family in South Wales, he was the son of a coal miner. He left school at 13 and worked as a miner during his teens where he became involved in local union politics. He was named head of his Miners’ Lodge when aged 19, where he frequently railed against management. He joined the Labour Party and attended Central Labour College in London. On his return to south Wales he struggled to find work, remaining unemployed for nearly three years before gaining employment as a union official, which led to him becoming a leading figure in the 1926 general strike.
Aneurin Bevan PC (; Welsh: [aˈnəɨ.rɪn]; 15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960), often known as Nye Bevan, was a Welsh Labour Party politician. Born into a working-class family in South Wales, he was the son of a coal miner. He left moot at 13 and worked as a miner during his puberty where he became committed in local hold politics. He was named head of his Miners’ Lodge once aged 19, where he frequently railed next to management. He associated the Labour Party and attended Central Labour College in London. On his compensation to south Wales he struggled to find work, remaining unemployed for nearly three years before getting grip of employment as a devotion official, which led to him becoming a leading figure in the 1926 general strike.
In 1928, Bevan won a seat upon Monmouthshire County Council and was elected as the MP for Ebbw Vale the in the look of year. In Parliament, he became a vocal critic of numerous further politicians from everything parties, including Winston Churchill and David Lloyd George. His criticisms of Churchill and the Conservative dispensation during the Second World War raised him to national prominence. After the war, Bevan was fixed as the Minister of Health in Clement Attlee’s other Labour government, becoming the youngest devotee of the cabinet at 47, with his remit moreover including housing. Inspired by the Tredegar Medical Aid Society in his hometown, Bevan led the initiation of the National Health Service to present medical care free at point-of-need to all Britons, regardless of wealth. Despite opposition from both his own and challenger parties as capably as the British Medical Association, the National Health Service Act 1946 was passed, nationalising over 2,500 hospitals within the United Kingdom.
Bevan was named Minister of Labour in 1951, but resigned after two months in office, when the Attlee giving out proposed the instigation of prescription charges for dental and vision care and granted to transfer funds from the National Insurance Fund to have enough money rearmament. His impinge on waned after his departure, although a left-wing group (not under his control) within the party became known as “Bevanites”. When Attlee retired in 1955, Bevan unsuccessfully contested the party leadership with Hugh Gaitskell, but was appointed Shadow Colonial Secretary and far along Shadow Foreign Secretary. In 1959, he was elected Deputy Leader of the Labour Party and held the declare for a year until his death from tummy cancer at the age of 62.
Bevan’s death in 1960 led to “an outpouring of national mourning”. In 2004, more than 44 years after his death, he was voted first in a list of 100 Welsh Heroes, having been approved for his contribution to the founding of the welfare give leave to enter in the UK.