| Code | BPS/GB/34 |
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| Name | Hearnshaw; Leslie Spencer (1907-1991); Professor |
| Title | Professor |
| Forenames | Leslie Spencer |
| Surname | Hearnshaw |
| Dates | 1907-1991 |
| Other Names | L.S.Hearnshaw |
| Gender | Male |
| Nationality | British |
| DatesAndPlaces | Born Southampton December 9 1907 Died June 10 1991
Wimbledon ?1917- ?1925
Oxford ?1925-?1929
London ?1930-?1939
New Zealand 1939-1947
Liverpool 1947-1991 |
| Address | West Kirby |
| Relationships | Son of Fossey John Cobb Hearnshaw (1869-1946) Social and Political Historian
Married (1937) Gwenneth Dickins (nd) (four children, one son and three daughters) |
| Activity | Leslie Hearnshaw was privately educated at King's College School, Wimbledon then Christ Church, Oxford and the University of London graduating with first-class honours. Hearnshaw had been a student under Spearman (1863-1945) at the University of London.
Hearnshaw was elected to membership of the British Psychological Society in 1932 he then became an investigator with the National Institute of Industrial Psychology (NIIP).
He spent the years between 1939 and 1947 in New Zealand, as a lecturer in psychology at Victoria University College, Wellington.
He was also Director of the Industrial Psychology Division in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research at Wellington between 1942 and 1947.
Hearnshaw returned to England in 1947 and was appointed the first chair of psychology in the University of Liverpool.
Professor Hearnshaw was an active and prominent member of the British Psychological Society. He served on many of its committees and was BPS President in 1955 and also editor of the Society's Monograph-Supplement 1960-1964.
He was also vice-president of the International Association of Applied Psychology, and editor of International Review of Applied Psychology from 1969-1972.
Professor Hearnshaw was part of the group funded by the Medical Research Council for research in the occupational aspects of ageing at Liverpool from 1955 to 1970. He wrote a short history of this group.
His biography of Cyril Burt (1883-1971) was published in 1979.
Sources:
Obituary in the Guardian July 4 1991 (Alexander Lovie)
Obituary in Recorder No. 107, February 1992 (D.B.Bromley, University of Liverpool magazine)
Obituary in The Psychologist (D.B.Bromley), September 1991.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| OtherInfo | Cyril Burt's sister Marion Burt requested Hearnshaw write Burt's biography |
| Related Name | BPS/GB/367 |
| PublishedWorks | Human Welfare and Industrial Efficiency. 1945;
A Short History of British Psychology 1840-1940. (Methuen) 1964;
The Comparative Psychology of Mental Development. 1966;
Cyril Burt, psychologist.(Hodder & Stoughton) 1979
The Shaping of Modern Psychology (Routledge) 1987
"Balance Sheet on Burt" , supplement to the Bulletin of The British Psychological Society (1980), 33, 1-8.
"Burt Redivivus", The Psychologist, (April 1992) pp. 168-170. (posthumous) |
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| Source | Sources:
Obituary in the Guardian July 4 1991 (Alexander Lovie)
Obituary in Recorder No. 107, February 1992 (D.B.Bromley, University of Liverpool magazine)
Obituary in The Psychologist (D.B.Bromley), September 1991 |
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| RefNo | Title | Dates |
| HEARN/1/2/1 | Applied Psychology Congress | 1962-1971 |
| HEARN/1/5 | Miscellaneous Correspondence & Notes | 1945-1961 |
| HEARN/1/6 | Short History of British Psychology | 1941-1964 |
| HEARN/1/2/3 | XVIIIth Congress of Psychology Moscow 1966 (I) | 1966 |
| HEARN/1/3/6 | Journals, Foreign and Non-BPS (2) | 1958-1982 |
| HEARN/1/4 | Lectures and Papers | 1936-1982 |
| HEARN/1/3/4 | Institutional Pamphlets | 1953-1975 |
| HEARN/1/2/5 | XVIIIth Congress of Psychology Moscow 1966 (III) | 1966 |
| HEARN/1/6/2 | Short History of British Psychology Notes (2) | 1941-1964 |
| HEARN/1/5/2 | Miscellaneous | 1933-1974 |
| HEARN/1/4/5 | Thinking Lecture and Creativity Project | 1967-1971 |
| PHO/001/02/244 | Hearnshaw, Leslie Spencer - Photograph | c 1955 |
| HEARN/1/3 | Journals, Pamphlets and Reports | 1932-1986 |
| HEARN/1/3/12 | Work and Vocation | 1944-1974 |
| HEARN/1/3/1 | American Psychological Association (A.P.A.) Division 26, History of Psychology Newsletters | 1977-1986 |
| HEARN/1/5/5 | Piaget to Hearnshaw | 21 September 1959 |
| HEARN/1 | Hearnshaw, Leslie Spencer (1932-1990) papers | 1932-1986 |
| HEARN/1/2/2 | International History of Science Congress | 1968-1971 |
| HEARN/1/4/3 | Lecture Notes Physiological Psychology | 1958-1959 |
| HEARN/1/3/5 | Journals, Foreign and Non-BPS (1) | 1967-1975 |
| HEARN/1/3/2 | Child and Educational Psychology | 1949-1974 |
| RAVE/1/2/9 | Societies, Institutions & Forums Correspondence | 1945-1960 |
| HEARN/1/6/1 | Short History of British Psychology Notes (1) | (1817) -1944 |
| HEARN/1/3/11 | Social and Ethnic | 1932-1984 |
| HEARN/1/2/6 | XVIIIth Congress of Psychology Moscow 1966 (IV) | 1966-1972 |
| HEARN/1/6/3 | Short History of British Psychology Notes (3) | 1950s-1964 |
| HEARN/1/5/1 | Cambridge Conference on Psychology of Thinking, 1955 | 1955 |
| HEARN/1/3/10 | Scientific, Experimental, Perception and Behaviour | 1936-1980 |
| PHO/001/04/02/01 | BPS Diamond Jubilee Dinner 1961 - Photographs | 1961 |
| HEARN/1/3/9 | Military and War | 1932-1961 |
| HEARN/1/5/3 | Miscellaneous Notes | 1947-1955 |
| HEARN/1/1 | History of Psychology | 1941-1984 |
| HEARN/1/2 | International Congress of Psychology | 1966-1972 |
| HEARN/1/2/4 | XVIIIth Congress of Psychology Moscow 1966 (II) | 1966 |
| HEARN/1/5/4 | Notes on Pre-1953 Studies of Thinking | 1899-1952 |
| HEARN/1/1/2 | Reprints and Text (2) | 1941-1984 |
| HEARN/1/3/8 | Mental Health and Psychiatry [2] | 1937-1972 |
| HEARN/1/3/7 | Mental Health and Psychiatry [1] | 1936-1973 |
| HEARN/1/4/4 | Recent Trends in Psychology Lectures and Pamphlets | 1936-1982 |
| HEARN/1/4/1 | Conceptual Thinking | 1951-1955 |
| HEARN/1/1/1 | Reprints and Text (1) | 1955-1972 |
| HEARN/1/3/3 | Clinical, Subnormality, Child Illness | 1938-1974 |
| HEARN/1/4/2 | Inaugural and other Formal Lectures | 1947-1979 |