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

   • The Guinness Book of World Records, which inspires tens of thousands of people annually to attempt record-breaking feats, began as an idea conceived by British engineer and industrialist Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, to solve trivia questions among bar patrons.

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   Who founded Guinness World Records?

   • Since 2008, Guinness World Records has orientated its business model away from selling books, and towards creating new world records as publicity exercises for individuals and organisations, which has attracted criticism. Norris McWhirter co-founded the book with his twin brother Ross at 107 Fleet Street, London, in August 1955.

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   What does a Guinness writer do?

   • They write new content and verify and edit content received from contributors. Norris and Ross McWhirter founded the Guinness World Records series in 1955. The Guinness Book of World Records, annual reference book covering all types of records about the world and its inhabitants.

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   Is Guinness World Records still a book company?

   • "Guinness World Records is no longer just a book company. It's a branded experience". Vox. Archived from the original on 6 February 2023. Retrieved 21 November 2022. ^ a b "John Oliver Bakes Very Large Cake to Annoy Turkmenistan". Time. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 16 August 2019.

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   Guinness World Records - originally the Guinness Book of Records - the ultimate authority on record-breaking achievements, started out as an idea for a book of facts to solve arguments in pubs. The idea came about in the early 1950’s when Sir Hugh Beaver (1890—1967), Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery, attended a shooting party in ...

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   Norris McWhirter co-founded the book with his twin brother Ross at 107 Fleet Street, London, in August 1955. On 10 November 1951, Sir Hugh Beaver, then the managing director of the Guinness Breweries, [3] went on a shooting party in the North Slob, by the River Slaney in County Wexford, Ireland.

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   • Subject: World records

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   • Publisher: Jim Pattison Group

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   Sir Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver, KBE (4 May 1890 – 16 January 1967) was an English-South African civil engineer, industrialist and bureaucrat, who founded the Guinness World Records (then known as Guinness Book of Records). He was Director-General of the Ministry of Works and managing director at Guinness Brewery.

   • Nationality: English, South African
   • Born: Hugh Eyre Campbell Beaver, 4 May 1890, Johannesburg, South Africa

   • Resting place: Holy Trinity Church, Penn Street
   • Died: 16 January 1967 (aged 76), London, England

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   May 12, 2024 · The Guinness Book of World Records, which inspires tens of thousands of people annually to attempt record-breaking feats, began as an idea conceived by British engineer and industrialist Sir Hugh Beaver, the managing director of the Guinness Brewery, to solve trivia questions among bar patrons.

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   Mar 23, 2024 · The epic tale of Guinness World Records, once known as The Guinness Book of Records, kicks off with a fiery debate at a County Wexford shooting party in the early 1950s. Sir Hugh Beaver, then Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery, engaged in a heated argument about Europe’s speediest game bird, only to find zero answers in the books.

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