Wilfred Griffin Eady
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Sir Wilfred Griffin Eady GCMG, KCB
, KBE, (1890-1962) was a British Treasury official and diplomat.
Eady was a British delegate to the Bretton Woods Conference of July 1944, in New Hampshire
. The conference was to decide the post-war international financial system; it led to the International Monetary Fund
and World Bank
. John Maynard Keynes
was hailed as the presiding intellect at the conference. Eady, at a banquet on the last night of the conference remarked: "The whole meeting spontaneously stood up and waited, silent, until he (Keynes) had taken his place. Someone of more than ordinary stature had entered the room."
After the Second World War, Eady negotiated a loan to Britain, from Canada, of a billion and a quarter dollars, and cancelled debts of $425,000,000 (incurred when Canada housed and trained British flyers during the war under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan) and $150,000,000 (other war debts). Eady remarked on this loan that was designed to keep afloat a trading relationship between the two countries, that it was by no means a one-way deal and that almost all the money will be spent in Canada, principally on foods and manufactured goods.
Eady was the Principal of The Working Men’s College
from 1949 to 1955. Liberal Education
, the raison d'etre of the College was defined by Eady as “... something you can enjoy for its own sake, something which is a personal possession and an inward enrichment, and something which teaches a sense of values.”
Between 1949 and 1951, Eady was the chairman of Civil Service Benevolent Fund.
in 1957, Eady gave his name to the Eady Levy
on cinema ticket sales, a tax designed and introduced by President of the Board of Trade Harold Wilson
who said: "If you want to get a measure adopted, name it after the civil servant who would have to implement it."
He died in 1962 and was buried at Rodmell
, Sussex
, England.
Order of the Bath
The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...
, KBE, (1890-1962) was a British Treasury official and diplomat.
Eady was a British delegate to the Bretton Woods Conference of July 1944, in New Hampshire
New Hampshire
New Hampshire is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. The state was named after the southern English county of Hampshire. It is bordered by Massachusetts to the south, Vermont to the west, Maine and the Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Canadian...
. The conference was to decide the post-war international financial system; it led to the International Monetary Fund
International Monetary Fund
The International Monetary Fund is an organization of 187 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world...
and World Bank
World Bank
The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans to developing countries for capital programmes.The World Bank's official goal is the reduction of poverty...
. John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes
John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes of Tilton, CB FBA , was a British economist whose ideas have profoundly affected the theory and practice of modern macroeconomics, as well as the economic policies of governments...
was hailed as the presiding intellect at the conference. Eady, at a banquet on the last night of the conference remarked: "The whole meeting spontaneously stood up and waited, silent, until he (Keynes) had taken his place. Someone of more than ordinary stature had entered the room."
After the Second World War, Eady negotiated a loan to Britain, from Canada, of a billion and a quarter dollars, and cancelled debts of $425,000,000 (incurred when Canada housed and trained British flyers during the war under the Commonwealth Air Training Plan) and $150,000,000 (other war debts). Eady remarked on this loan that was designed to keep afloat a trading relationship between the two countries, that it was by no means a one-way deal and that almost all the money will be spent in Canada, principally on foods and manufactured goods.
Eady was the Principal of The Working Men’s College
Working Men's College
The Working Men's College- WMC, being among the earliest adult education institutions established in the United Kingdom, is Europe's oldest extant centre for adult education and perhaps one of its smallest...
from 1949 to 1955. Liberal Education
Liberal education
A Liberal education is a system or course of education suitable for the cultivation of a free human being. It is based on the medieval concept of the liberal arts or, more commonly now, the liberalism of the Age of Enlightenment...
, the raison d'etre of the College was defined by Eady as “... something you can enjoy for its own sake, something which is a personal possession and an inward enrichment, and something which teaches a sense of values.”
Between 1949 and 1951, Eady was the chairman of Civil Service Benevolent Fund.
in 1957, Eady gave his name to the Eady Levy
Eady levy
The Eady Levy was a tax on box office receipts in the United Kingdom, intended to support the British film industry and named for Sir Wilfred Eady. It was established in 1957 and terminated in 1985.- Background :...
on cinema ticket sales, a tax designed and introduced by President of the Board of Trade Harold Wilson
Harold Wilson
James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx, KG, OBE, FRS, FSS, PC was a British Labour Member of Parliament, Leader of the Labour Party. He was twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1960s and 1970s, winning four general elections, including a minority government after the...
who said: "If you want to get a measure adopted, name it after the civil servant who would have to implement it."
He died in 1962 and was buried at Rodmell
Rodmell
Rodmell is a small village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England. It is located three miles south-west of Lewes, on the Lewes to Newhaven road and is situated by the west banks of the River Ouse...
, Sussex
Sussex
Sussex , from the Old English Sūþsēaxe , is an historic county in South East England corresponding roughly in area to the ancient Kingdom of Sussex. It is bounded on the north by Surrey, east by Kent, south by the English Channel, and west by Hampshire, and is divided for local government into West...
, England.