| Code | BPS/GB/39 |
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| Name | Summerfield; Sir; Arthur (1923-2005); Professor; FBPsS, HonMBPsS |
| PreTitle | Sir |
| Title | Professor |
| Forenames | Arthur |
| Surname | Summerfield |
| Dates | 1923-2005 |
| Epithet | FBPsS, HonMBPsS |
| Other Names | Arthur Summerfield |
| Gender | Male |
| Nationality | British |
| DatesAndPlaces | Born 1923, ?Cheshire, Died September 10 2005 at Northallerton, North Yorkshire
1923- 19? Wilmslow, Cheshire
1943- 194? War service
1949-1988 London
1988- 2001 ?London
2001-2005 Sutton under Whitestonecliffe, North Yorkshire |
| Address | Birkbeck College, London |
| Relationships | Wife Angela [nd]
Two children, Quentin [nd] and Penny [nd]
Five grandchildren [nd] |
| Activity | Born 1923,
Died September 10 2005.
Arthur Summerfield spent the early part of his life in Wilmslow Cheshire.
A member of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Force, he was called up to active naval service in 1943.
Personnel Selection Officer in the Admiralty
In 1949 Arthur Summerfield became a lecturer at University College London then Head of the Department of Psychology at Birkbeck College in the University of London. His expertise ranged from the effects of nuclear bombs to the role of psychology in education.
In 1989 Arthur Summerfield retired and set up his own firm of chartered psychologists with his wife, Angela.
This ran for 11 years before the couple moved to Sutton under Whitestonecliffe in 2001.
Arthur Summerfield died of a brain haemorrhage at Northallerton's Friarage Hospital in 2005.
Arthur Summerfield's service to the British Psychological Society included:
1954 to 1959 Honorary General Secretary
1957 Fellow of the British Psychological Society
1959 to 1962 Deputy President
1962 to 1963 President-Elect
1963 to 1964 President
1964 to 1965 Vice President
1993 Honorary Life member
N.B. Arthur Summerfield was Honorary General Secretary of the BPS from 1954 to 1959, at a key period in which the Society was formulating its intention to seek a Royal Charter. He was then President from 1963-1964 a critical year for negotiations relating to the Royal Charter and also known for the first public report on educational psychology entitled "Psychologists in Education Services" (aka The Summerfield Report), HMSO. 1968
Sources:
Obituary in Darlington & Stockton Times 03/10/2005
Obituary in The Psychologist (David Legge), November 2005.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| OtherInfo | He was Honorary General Secretary of the BPS from 1954 to 1959, at a key period in which the Society was formulating its intention to seek a Royal Charter. He was then President from 1963-1964 a critical year for negotiations relating to the Royal Charter. |
| PublishedWorks | Clinical psychology in Britain. Bull.Brit. psychol. Soc. No.34, 9-18 (1958)
Summerfield Report 1968, Psychologists in Education Services, HMSO. |
| Source | Sources:
Obituary in Darlington & Stockton Times 03/10/2005
Obituary in The Psychologist (David Legge), November 2005 |
| Conventions | International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN ISBN 0-9696035-3-3
National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 |
Show related catalogue records.
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| RefNo | Title | Dates |
| BPS/001/12/02/04/02 | British Journal of Statistical Psychology Editor's (Cyril Burt) Correspondence December 1954- November 1955 | 1954-1955 |
| PHO/001/02/510 | Summerfield, Arthur - Photograph | Mid 20th century |
| BPS/001/12/02/04/03 | British Journal of Statistical Psychology Editor's (Cyril Burt) Correspondence 1956 | 1956 |
| Sum/001 | Summerfield, Sir Arthur (1923-2005) papers | 1957-1959 |
| PHO/001/04/02/01 | BPS Diamond Jubilee Dinner 1961 - Photographs | 1961 |
| BPS/001/12/02/04/01 | British Journal of Statistical Psychology Editor's (Cyril Burt) Correspondence 1954 | 1953-1954 |
| BPS/001/11/04/03/01/03 | Evidence to and Comments on Report of the Royal Commission on the Law Relating to Mental Illness and Mental Deficiency 1954-1957 | 1958 |
| BPS/001/12/02/04/04 | British Journal of Statistical Psychology Correspondence and Minutes 1954-1957 | 1954-1957 |
| BPS/001/11/04/03/01/02 | Evidence to the Home Office Committee on the Law Relating to Children and Young Persons 1958-1959 | 1958-1959 |