Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver, KBE (4 May 1890 – 16 January 1967)[1] was an English-South African civil engineer, industrialist and bureaucrat, who founded the Guinness World Records (then known as Guinness Book of Records).

[8] Beaver spent two years in the Indian police from 1910 and returned to England in 1921, joining the civil engineering firm Sir Alexander Gibb & Partners, as the personal assistant of Sir Alexander Gibb.

He directed the reconstruction of the harbour of Saint John in New Brunswick after it was destroyed by a fire in 1931.

[9] In 1954 the committee reported results which led to effective action, in part due to a shift in public opinion.

[11] Beaver died of heart failure in London, United Kingdom on 16 January 1967.