Aneurin Bevan facts for kids

Bevan in 1943

Aneurin "Nye" Bevan PC (15 November 1897 – 6 July 1960) was a Welsh Labour politician. He is known for leading the creation of the National Health Service (NHS) to give medical care free at point-of-need to all Britons. He first became an MP for Ebbw Vale in 1929. He served as Deputy Leader of the Labour Party from 1956 to 1959 and was Shadow Foreign Secretary from 1959 until his death in 1960. Under Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Bevan was Minister of Health (1945–1951) and Labour and National Service (1951).

Bevan was born in Tredegar, Monmouthshire. He married Scottish-born fellow Labour politician Jennie Lee in 1934. He was a humanist.

On 6 July 1960, Bevan died of stomach cancer in Chesham, Buckinghamshire. He was 62.

• Works by Aneurin Bevan at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Images for kids

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  The Tredegar Query Club by friends including Aneurin Bevan and Walter Conway. Conway is in the middle of the picture. Aneurin is second from right on the back row and his brother Billy is second right on front row.

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  Bevan talking to a patient at Park Hospital, Manchester, the day the NHS came into being.

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  Statue of Bevan in Cardiff by Robert Thomas

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  Aneurin Bevan speaking in Corwen in 1952

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  A portrait of Bevan at the Senedd

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  The main stone of the Aneurin Bevan Memorial Stones at the Sirhowy Valley Walk