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Ernest Gowers = plain words and forgotten deeds /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Ernest Gowers/ Ann Scott.
Reminder of title:	plain words and forgotten deeds /
Author:	Scott, Ann,
Published:	Basingstoke, UK ;Palgrave Macmillan, : 2009.,
Description:	xviii, 255 p., [14] p. of plates :ill. ;22 cm.
[NT 15003449]:	Preface -- Anatomy of a Victorian Family -- Education for Public Service -- Coping with LloydGeorge -- WW1: Under Cover at Wellington House -- Influential Head of 'Enfeebled' Mines Department -- Quis Custodiet? Surtax, Syntax and Scandal -- Mine Owners' Bogy Man -- WW2: Preparingfor London'sCivil Defence -- WW2: Leading London through the Blitz --Postwar Reconstruction -- Abolishing Capital Punishment -- Plain Words-- Revising Fowler -- 'A Last Retrospect'.
Subject:	Civil service - Biography. - Great Britain -
Subject:	Great Britain - Biography. -
Online resource:	http://link.springer.com/10.1057/9780230244306access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	0230244300

Ernest Gowers = plain words and forgotten deeds /
Scott, Ann,1938-

Ernest Gowersplain words and forgotten deeds /[electronic resource] :Ann Scott. - Basingstoke, UK ;Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xviii, 255 p., [14] p. of plates :ill. ;22 cm. - Understanding governance. - Understanding governance..

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Anatomy of a Victorian Family -- Education for Public Service -- Coping with LloydGeorge -- WW1: Under Cover at Wellington House -- Influential Head of 'Enfeebled' Mines Department -- Quis Custodiet? Surtax, Syntax and Scandal -- Mine Owners' Bogy Man -- WW2: Preparingfor London'sCivil Defence -- WW2: Leading London through the Blitz --Postwar Reconstruction -- Abolishing Capital Punishment -- Plain Words-- Revising Fowler -- 'A Last Retrospect'.

During his long career as a British civil servant Ernest Gowers was close to the centre of many of the momentous events of the first half of the twentieth century. However, he only became famous in 1948 when Plain Words, originally written as a training pamphlet for the British Civil Service,became an instant best-seller for HMSO. Ann Scott has had access to Gowers' family archives. Using these and other previously untapped primary sources she builds a portrait of the career of one memberof a cohort of high-flying civil servants who began their careers at the turn of the century. Gowers' final task as a civil servant was to run London's civil defence during WW2. Because of the wealthof original material available, two chapters are devoted to the way in which civil defence was planned and the many challenges he had to face, using his own words and those of his colleagues. Described as Britain's 'No 1 Chairman' he chaired many inquiries after the war. The Royal Commission into Capital Punishment had a profound effect on him, turning him into a convinced and influential abolitionist. At the age of 75 he began the task that engaged him for the final ten years of his life: revising Fowler's Modern English Usage.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 0230244300Subjects--Personal Names:

1099552
Gowers, Ernest,
1880-1966.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1099553
Civil service
--Great Britain--Biography.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

571685
Great Britain
--Biography.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

542853
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: DA566.9.G65 / S36 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 941.082092

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