John Beevor
 John Beevor    (spook) | |
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| Born | 1905 |
| Died | 1987 (Age 81) |
| Nationality | UK |
| Alma mater | Winchester College, New College (Oxford) |
| Children | Anthony Beevor |
| Spouse | • Kinta Beevor • Mary Christine Grepe |
| Interests | Stay behind/Portugal |
British SOE spook who prepared a stay behind network in Portugal during WW2. Father of British historian Anthony Beevor.
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John Beevor was a British spook who prepared a stay behind network for the SOE in Portugal during WW2, and father of British historian Anthony Beevor.[1]
Background
He was a schoolchild during the Imperial German Navy's bombardment of Scarborough on the English east coast in December 1914.
He was educated at Winchester College and New College,Oxford.[2]
From 1933 to 1956, John G. Beevor was married to Carinthia Jane ('Kinta') Waterfield (1911–1995), and a second marriage from 1957 to Mary Christine Grepe. One of his sons is the historian Antony Beevor.
Intelligence career
He was officer with H Section, Special Operations Executive in Portugal, 1941-1942; where he among other things prepared a stay behind network in case of a possible German invasion.[3]
He was assistant to Sir Charles Hambro at Headquarters, Special Operations Executive in Baker Street, London in 1942-1943.
He was assistant to Major-General William Stawell in Egypt and Italy in 1944.
He became an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on 13 December 1945.
Post war career
He was supposedly a solicitor in London. In 1947 he became an adviser to the British delegation at the Marshall Plan Conference. He was Managing Director of the Commonwealth Development Corporation (CDC), founded in 1948, one of the organizations that pursued the idea of Robert Garner and other World Bank members to create an organization to strengthen the economy of the former British colonies. From 1956 to 1964 he was Vice President of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) and later until 1974 financial advisor.[4]
Beevor held senior positions in many companies including Chairman of Doulton & Co., Director of Williams and Glyn's Bank and the Glaxo Group, Member of the Institutional Council of the Overseas Development Institute, Member of the North Thames Gas Board and Partner of Slaughter and May.
He wrote the book SOE: Recollections and Reflections, 1940–1945 in 1981.
