Hal Summers


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.

Publications

His most popular poems include "My Old Cat", "The Beginners" and "The Seed".