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He was cast in a large mould both physically and in an intellectual capacity’.

He was born at Winsford in Somerset on 7th March 1881 a son of Diana Bevin (nee Tidbould). Whenever the name Ernest Bevin (1881-1951) is mentioned in conversation, it is often met with: “Do you mean Bevan?” The latter, Aneurin, founded the National Health Service; but his near-namesake was a yet more titanic figure.

The Ernest Bevin Society began as the British portion of the British and Irish Communist Organisation, but then decided Leninism was no longer relevant. In the 1970s it…

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