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| Name | Jones-Armstrong; Sir; Robert (1857-1943); Professor; FRCP, CBE, FRCS, DL, JP |
| PreTitle | Sir |
| Title | Professor |
| Forenames | Robert |
| Surname | Jones-Armstrong |
| Dates | 1857-1943 |
| Epithet | FRCP, CBE, FRCS, DL, JP |
| Parallel Name | Robert Armstrong-Jones |
| Other Names | Armstrong-Jones, Sir Robert |
| Gender | Male |
| Nationality | British |
| DatesAndPlaces | Born Ynyscynhaiarn, Wales 1857 died 30 January 1943 Plas Dinas, Caernarfon.
Wrexham 1873-1875
London 1875-1880
Earlswood 1880-1882
Colney Hatch 1882-1888
Earlswood 1888-1893
Claybury 1893-1917
London 1917-1927
Later dates and places unknown |
| Address | London |
| Relationships | British Psychological Society
Son of the Rev. Thomas Jones a Congregationalist minister.
Married Margaret Elizabeth (d. May 1943), daughter of Sir Owen Roberts who was a justice of the peace and deputy lieutenant for the counties of London and Caernarfon. They had one son and two daughters.
Paternal Grandfather to Jones-Armstrong, Anthony Charles Robert (b 1930) Ist Earl of Snowdon.
Apprentice to Dr R.Roberts at Portmadoc.
With Batten, Frederick Eustace (1864-1918) he was joint secretary of the Psychology Section of the Second International Congress of School Hygiene, London, in 1907 |
| Activity | Founder member British Psychological Society 1901.
Attended University of Wales obtained his London matriculation in 1875. Entered Bart's in 1876. He became Professor in Anatomy and won the Wix Essay Prize and the Hitchin's prize after an examination in Butler's Analogy of Religion. He left Bart's in 1880, having obtained his L.S.A. and London M.B.He spent the next two years, 1880-1882 as Junior Medical Officer at the Royal Earlswood Institution.
In 1883 he obtained the London M.D.
From 1882-1888 he was on the staff of Colney Hatch Asylum and in 1888 became Medical Superintendent of the new London County Council Asylum at Claybury, Woodford Bridge, Essex. Claybury was the first asylum under municipal control to receive private patients, under the Lunacy act of 1890. Here he organised the teaching of mental nurses and instituted special courses for them-the first asylum under the L.C.C. to do so.
In 1900 he obtained his membership of the Royal College of Physicians, and in 1907 his F.R.C.P.
He was President of the section of psychological medicine of the British Medical Association (1903), President of the the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland (1906-1907) (Gen. Secretary from 1897 to 1906.) and President of the section of psychiatry of the Royal Society of Medicine (1929).
In 1917 he resigned from Claybury.
He was knighted in 1917 and made CBE in 1919 in recognition of his war services.
In 1893 he was Secretary of the Psychology Section of the British Medical Association at Newcastle-on-Tyne.
During the 1914-1918 war with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel he was the first consulting physician in Mental Diseases to the London Command and later this included the Aldershot command.
In 1929 he was Henderson Trust Lecturer in the University of Edinburgh on the "Growth of the Mind" and also served on the Special Committee to Consider Spiritual Healing appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury (1920).
He was Lecturer in Mental diseases at St.Bartholomew's and Westminster Hospitals and Graham Professor of Physics, 1917-1927.
Note: In 1903 he was host to a meeting of the [British] Psychological Society at Claybury and read a paper on "Various Types of Insanity"
Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones is paternal Grandfather to Robert-Armstrong Jones, (b 1930), 1st Earl of Snowdon.
Sources: Information compiled from a pamphlet entitled "The British Psychological Society 1901-1961" supplement to the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society by Kenna, J.C. (1913-2004) Honorary Archivist BPS (BPS London) 1961 and the Journal of Mental Science, Vol. LXIV, No. 264, January 1918.
Compiled by Mike Maskill, BPS Archivist for the History of Psychology Centre. |
| OtherInfo | In 1903 he was host to a meeting of the [British] Psychological Society at Claybury and read a paper on "Various Types of Insanity" |
| PublishedWorks | "Textbook of Mental and Sick Nursing", 1907
Articles on insanity for Quain's Dictionary of Medicine and Allbutt's System of Medicine |
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| Source | Sources: Information compiled from a pamphlet entitled "The British Psychological Society 1901-1961" supplement to the Bulletin of the British Psychological Society by Kenna, J.C. (1913-2004) Hon.Archivist BPS (BPS London) 1961 |
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