On his death in 1950, he left part of his estate to promote a new phonetic alphabet
[DOC] [TLE] George Bernard Shaw - Wikipedia [PAR] George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856  2 November 1950), known at his 
insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist 
whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 
1880s to his death and beyond.