Henry Summers Quotes

Henry Forbes Summers , aka Hal Summers, was a senior British civil servant. He published several volumes of poetry.

Summers was educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh and Trinity College, Oxford. He joined the Ministry of Health in 1935. 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. This ministry was later absorbed into the Department of the Environment. He was made a CB in 1961 and retired in 1971. Wikipedia

✵ 1911 – 22. December 2005

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Famous Henry Summers Quotes

“Yesterday is safe,
Tomorrow's full of danger,
Yesterday's a face I know,
Tomorrow is a stranger.”

Henry Summers

"A Spell for Midnight"

“Four o’clock strikes,
There’s a rising hum,
Then the doors fly open,
The children come.”

Henry Summers

"Out of School"

“My old cat is dead,
Who would butt me with his head.”

Henry Summers

"My Old Cat", as given in The Nation's Favourite Twentieth Century Poems, pub. BBC, 1999

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