Dr Edwin Sloper Beaven (December 1857–November 1941)

British agriculturalist and botanist. Known for his barley breeding experiments. Beaven was born near Heytesbury in Wiltshire. The type "Plumage Archer" is named after him; a principle type of malting barley until after the Second World War. He also advised the Australian government on means of improving barley cultivation and co-founded the British Seed Corn Association with Rowland Biffen. After Beaven's death in 1941 the brewers Arthur Guinness, Son & Co took over his maltings and trial grounds in Boreham near Warminster, Wiltshire. Much of Beaven's work was published posthumously in the book Barley (1947).