Henry Forbes Summers (18 August 1911 in Harrogate, Yorkshire – 22 December 2005 in Basingstoke, Hampshire), aka Hal Summers, was a senior British civil servant.
He was Private Secretary to Aneurin Bevan while he was Minister of Health, during the passage of the National Health Bill, 1945.
He moved to the Ministry of Housing and Local Government on its creation and was promoted to Under-Secretary in 1955.
His most popular poems include "My Old Cat" (voted one of Britain's favourite 20th-century poems in a BBC poll), "The Beginners" and "The Seed".
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