Sir Godfrey Hilton Thomson (1881-1955) - Revision history

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 *Ian J. Deary, 'An Intelligent Scotland: Professor Sir Godfrey Thomson and the Scottish Mental Surveys of 1932 and 1947', ''Journal of the British Academy'', 1 (2013), 95-131 [[http://www.britac.ac.uk/journal/1/deary.cfm], accessed 30 May 2014]
 *P. Lovie and A. D. Lovie, ‘Thomson, Sir Godfrey Hilton (1881–1955)’, ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) [[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/49732], accessed 30 May 2014]
-*Hugh Perfect, 'History of Professional Training at Moray House' [[http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/education/about-us/maps-estates-history/history/overview], accessed 30 May 2014]
+*Hugh Perfect, 'History of Professional Training at Moray House' [[https://www.ed.ac.uk/education/about-us/maps-estates-history/history], accessed 7 December 2017]
 *Stephen Sharp, 'Much More at Home with 3999 Pupils than with Four: The Contributions to Psychometrics of Sir Godfrey Thomson', ''British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology'', 50 (1997), 163-74.
 *Sir Godfrey Hilton Thomson, ''Education of an Englishman'' (Edinburgh: Moray House College of Education, 1969)
 [[Category:Academics|Thomson, Godfrey Hilton, Sir]]

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−	'''Sir Godfrey Hilton Thomson''' (1881-1955) held the [[Bell Chair of Education]] at Edinburgh University from 1925 to 1951.	+	[[File:0002289d.jpg \| border \| 300 px \| right \| thumb \| Sir Godfrey Hilton Thomson (1881-1955), photograph by W. & E. Drummond Young, Edinburgh University Archives (EUA CA1/1/20)]]'''Sir Godfrey Hilton Thomson''' (1881-1955) held the [[Bell Chair of Education]] at Edinburgh University from 1925 to 1951.

	== Early years ==		== Early years ==

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−	'''Sir Godfrey Hilton Thomson''' (1881-1955) held the [[Bell Chair of Education]] at Edinburgh University from 1925 to ~~1952~~.	+	'''Sir Godfrey Hilton Thomson''' (1881-1955) held the [[Bell Chair of Education]] at Edinburgh University from 1925 to 1951.

	== Early years ==		== Early years ==

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 *[[Papers of Albert E. G. Pilliner]]
 *[[Material Collected by Marian Cooke]]
 == Notable publications ==

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 *[[Papers of Professor Walter Ledermann]]
 *[[Papers of Albert E. G. Pilliner]]
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 == Research and Teaching ==
-Intelligence and its measurement would fascinate Thomson throughout his career, and his talents in that area would see his work lauded by renowned figures such as Carlos Paton Blacker, Cyril Burt, Karl Pearson, and [[Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873-1956)|Sir Edmund Whittaker]]. He published prolifically on intelligence, statistics, and education through journal articles and books. His book, ''The Factorial Analysis of Human Ability'', ran to five editions (1939-1951), and was widely regarded as definitive. Its publication was facilitated by the Carnegie Corporation, which awarded Thomson a £5000 grant on the endorsement of E L Thorndike, and Thomas S. Arbuthnot. Thomson employed [[Walter Ledermann (1911-2009)]], to whom he had been introduced by Whittaker,  as a mathematical assistant on the project. Thomson was also the co-founding editor, alongside Cyril Burt, of the ''British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology''.
+Intelligence and its measurement would fascinate Thomson throughout his career, and his talents in that area would see his work lauded by renowned figures such as Carlos Paton Blacker, Cyril Burt, Karl Pearson, and [[Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1873-1956)|Sir Edmund Whittaker]]. He published prolifically on intelligence, statistics, and education through journal articles and books. His book, ''The Factorial Analysis of Human Ability'', ran to five editions (1939-1951), and was widely regarded as definitive. Its publication was facilitated by the Carnegie Corporation, which awarded Thomson a £5000 grant on the endorsement of E. L. Thorndike, and Thomas S. Arbuthnot. Thomson employed [[Walter Ledermann (1911-2009)]], to whom he had been introduced by Whittaker,  as a mathematical assistant on the project. Thomson was also the co-founding editor, alongside Cyril Burt, of the ''British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology''.
 Thomson had a great passion for teaching and imparting knowledge. His beliefs regarding the importance of engaging students and pupils in lectures and classes, now commonplace, were highly innovative in his time. He strove to ensure that each individual would be put on the path suited to both their abilities and interests, which he believed would ultimately produce satisfied individuals, and subsequently good citizens.

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 *[[Papers of Godfrey H. Thomson]]
 *[[Records of the Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research]]
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 In 1925, despite pressure from Edward Lee Thorndike to accept a post at Columbia University following a highly successful year there as visiting Professor (1923-1924), Thomson accepted both the [[Bell Chair of Education]] at the University of Edinburgh, and the post of Director of Studies at the [[Edinburgh Provincial Training Centre]] (later [[Moray House College of Education]]). The two positions had never been held by the same candidate, and never were again.
-It was here in what became the Godfrey Thomson Unit that Thomson and his team formulated the Moray House Tests, based on Thomson's earlier Northumberland tests. Published by the University of London Press, the tests were used throughout the UK for school selection, particularly in England, and by 1948 had been given to two out of three British children. Thomson believed testing was preferable to nepotism, and worked on making the tests as fair as possible. Profit was put in a research fund to facilitate their continued improvement.
+It was here in what became the [[Godfrey Thomson Unit for Educational Research]] that Thomson and his team formulated the Moray House Tests, based on Thomson's earlier Northumberland tests. Published by the University of London Press, the tests were used throughout the UK for school selection, particularly in England, and by 1948 had been given to two out of three British children. Thomson believed testing was preferable to nepotism, and worked on making the tests as fair as possible. Profit was put in a research fund to facilitate their continued improvement.
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 On his retirement from the University of Edinburgh in 1951, Thomson, who had proved highly popular amongst staff and students, was presented with two portraits of himself by R. H. Westwater, one of which hangs in Moray House to this day. He continued to publish up until his illness and subsequent death on 9 February 1955.
-== Notable publications: ==
+== Archives ==
 *''A Modern Philosophy of Education'' (1929)