Janet Philip
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Janet Thomson Philip, Baroness Beveridge, known as Jessy Philip, Jessy Mair and later Janet Beveridge, was a member of the third cohort of female students to study at the University of St Andrews and
Lady Beveridge, circa 1957
The graves of Lord and Lady Beveridge
The welfare state of the United Kingdom began to evolve in the 1900s and early 1910s, and comprises expenditures by the government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland intended
Janet Philip
…and Social Policy at UCL, found that Philip was instrumental in helping to produce and publicise the Beveridge Report which led to the founding of the welfare state in the United Kingdom; she and Beveridge married within a few weeks after its publication. While studying mathematics at St Andrews Philip met David Beveridge Mair, a…
Liberal politicians David Lloyd George and Winston Churchill enacted the 1909 People's Budget which specifically aimed at the redistribution of wealth.