Understanding Governance

Plain Words and Forgotten Deeds

By: Ann Scott

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Hardcover | 15 October 2009 | Edition Number 1

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Draws on previously inaccessible family archives to penetrate the anonymity and public reticence of one of Britain's great twentieth century civil servants. Gowers was highly influential in public policy throughout his long civil service career, which began in 1903 and culminated in running London's civil defence throughout the Second World War.

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List of Plates	p. xii
Preface	p. xiii
The aim of the biography	p. xiii
Research method	p. xv
Anatomy of a Victorian Family	p. 1
Ernest Gowers' father, Sir William Gowers	p. 1
Sir William Gowers and his children	p. 4
Education for Public Service	p. 7
Bilton Grange - the stepping stone to Rugby	p. 7
Rugby - the choice of schoo	p. l9
Clare College, Cambridge	p. 11
Competition for employment among the new middle class	p. 12
'Cramming' at Wrens and reading for the Bar	p. 14
Success in the Civil Service Examination	p. 15
Coping with Lloyd George	p. 16
The India Office	p. 17
Private Secretary to the Parliamentary Under-Secretary for India	p. 19
Marriage and family	p. 20
Talent uncovered - promotion to Principal Private Secretary to Lloyd George	p. 21
The turbulent introduction of Lloyd George's National insurance Bill	p. 22
Lloyd George and the Marconi Scanda	p. l24
Establishing the National Insurance Commission - Gowers joins the 'Loan Collection'	p. 26
WWI: Under Cover at Wellington House	p. 33
Wellington House is established	p. 33
The work conducted by Wellington House	p. 37
The turning point for Wellington House	p. 42
The contribution made by Wellington House	p. 47
The impact of the war on the Gowers family	p. 47
Calm between the storms: the Conciliation and Arbitration Board	p. 51
Influential Head of 'Enfeebled' Mines Department	p. 52
The troubled history of the coal industry	p. 54
Birth of the 'enfeebled mouse'	p. 55
The Samuel Royal Commission	p. 57
The 1926 miners' strike	p. 60
The Samuel Memorandum	p. 61
The miners' strike unresolved	p. 62
The end of the miners' strike	p. 64
'Quis Custodiet?' - Surtax, Syntax and Scanda	p. l65
Inland Revenue	p. 65
'Mainly about the King's English'	p. 68
Rescue at Entebbe	p. 71
Mine Owners' Bogy Man	p. 77
Controversy at the outset	p. 77
Failed test case	p. 79
Steps towards nationalisation	p. 82
Coal becomes a national property	p. 84
Free at last	p. 87
A weekender in the country	p. 88
WWII: Preparing for London's Civil Defence	p. 91
The build-up of civil defence	p. 91
Establishing the civil defence regions	p. 94
On the brink of war	p. 97
The Phoney War	p. 99
Air raids begin	p. 103
The Battle of Britain	p. 107
The Battle of London (the Blitz)	p. 109
The appointment of Special Commissioners	p. 111
Herbert Morrison succeeds John Anderson	p. 113
Euan Wallace retires	p. 114
WWII: Leading London through the Blitz	p. 117
Gowers succeeds Wallace as Senior Regional Commissioner	p. 117
Reorganising the fire services	p. 122
After the Blitz, the 'long haul' of the Lull	p. 123
The Little Blitz	p. 131
The end of the war - the civil defence regions disbanded	p. 134
War and the Gowers family	p. 136
The end of the war - farewells	p. 138
Post-war Reconstruction	p. 141
Harlow New Town Development Corporation	p. 143
Committees of Inquiry: 'No. 1 Chairman'	p. 147
Women in the Foreign Service	p. 148
Closing hours of shops	p. 149
Historic houses	p. 151
Foot-and-mouth disease	p. 152
Abolishing Capital Punishment	p. 154
The politics of capital punishment	p. 154
Royal Commission into Capital Punishment established	p. 159
The Royal Commission's report	p. 161
The fate of the report	p. 162
A Life for a Life? The Problem of Capital Punishment	p. 166
1957 Homicide Act	p. 168
Abolition of capital punishment	p. 169
Plain Words	p. 172
Genesis	p. 172
A fight for royalties	p. 177
The ABC of Plain Words	p. 178
The Complete Plain Words	p. 182
Gowers and the language zealots	p. 184
Revisions of Plain Words	p. 186
Revising Fowler's Modern English Usage	p. 188
'A Last Retrospect'	p. 200
Gowers and the Civil Service	p. 200
Gowers and English usage	p. 203
Gowers and his family	p. 205
Governments and Prime Ministers 1900-1970	p. 211
Condensed Biographies	p. 212
Notes	p. 219
Bibliography	p. 238
Index	p. 249
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