| Description | Typed original letters [qty 3] received from eminent psychologists and 2-copy letters sent by Jack Ingham.
The Letters are from the following:
David Wechsler, New York University concerning Wechsler Bellevue Scale 19/01/1949
L.L.Thurstone, Chicago University concerning second-order general factor09/09/1948
Cyril Burt, University College London concerning memory factor analysis 16/03/1949
Copy letters sent by Jack Ingham to the following:
Dr.Blacker, concerning tests results of Guardsmen and NCOs 28/03/1949
Dr. Wechsler, concerning Wechsler Bellvue test 10/12/1948
Cyril Burt, University College London in reply to Jack Ingham's letter of the 16th March concerning memory factor analysis [3 pages] 17/03/1949.
Note: A BPS Oral History Interview with Jack Ingham (from February 2006) is available under BPS ref: AUD/002/OHP 11. |
| AdminHistory | Date of Birth: 22/08/1923
Place of Birth: Lytham St.Annes, UK
University Qualifications and Professional Training:
Manchester University BSc. Psychology 1947
London IoP Ph.D 1949
Professional Career:
War Service (WWII), Royal Armoured Corps/Infantry/Gliders Brigade (nd)
Lecturer in Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, London 1949-1951
Research Psychologist, Neuropsychiatric Research Centre, Cardiff 1951-1960
(became a Medical Research Council Unit in 1957)
Member of Scientific Staff, Medical Research Council, Social Psychiatry Research Unit (South Wales detachment), 1960-1965
Honorary Lecturer, University College Cardiff, 1963-1971
Member of External Scientific Staff, Medical Research Council, Penarth, 1965-1973
Member of Scientific Staff, MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, Edinburgh, 1973-1978
Assistant Director, MRC Unit for Epidemiological Studies in Psychiatry, 1978
Involvement with BPS and other activities:
Fellow of the British Psychological Society 1959
BPS M.B.Shapiro Lecture 1987
Chairman of BPS Standing Committee on Publications (nd)
Member of Board of Assessors British Journal of Psychiatry 1970-1978
Member of Advisory Board Journal of Psychosomatic Research 1986-
Clinical Editor British Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology 1969-1974
Early founder BPS Welsh Branch (nd)
The Samaritans, Cardiff (nd) |
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