Eugenics Society Members List. - Br-Bz

Source of members names: From 1930 until 1990 members' names were published in the Society journal as they joined or became fellows. These sources are shown as a journal abbreviation followed by the year in which the person entered the Society, e.g., ER 1942. (ER = Eugenics Review; Bulletin of the Eugenics Society; B&S = Biology and Society). The Eugenics Review at times listed all the officers and members of the council. These sources are also shown as a journal abbreviation followed by a date. The Society is a corporation and its directors are listed in its annual reports deposited in Company House (CH). In 1937 the Society published a list of members in its Annual Report (ESAR 1937). In 1957 the Society published a list of members in the Eugenics Review (ER 1957). A list of members compiled in 1977 was deposited in the Welcome Archives (1977 list). Deaths of members were sometimes noted in obituaries in the Society journals (Obit + journal abbreviation and date). Other sources are as specified.

Brabrook, Sir Edward CB

Eugenics Society V.P. 1909-11 First International Eugenics Congress 1912 (General Committee; Delegate: Folk Lore Society)
Personal: b. 1839; d. 1930; Barrister; President: Anthropological Institute, Folklore Society (1901), Sociological Society (1927); Company Director, Rationalist Press Association 1908 (w/ John Hill Munday and George Macauley Trevelyan)
Pubns:
1909-1910, "The Report of the Poor Law Commission", v. 1, p. 47; 1909-1910, "Eugenics and Pauperism", ER, p. 229; Provident Societies and Industrial Welfare. 1898; Building Societies
Source: ER 1909-11, CH, WWW, Problems in Eugenics 1912 (repr.)
Quotes:
On political economy in the early nineteenth century as a religion
"If the word religion has any meaning (says Professor Ashby) political economy was one of the new religions of the era and the Political Economy Club was the assembly of the elders of that new Church." (Brabrook in ER 1909 p. 237)

Eugenics Society Fellow 1932
Source: ER 1932

142 Harley St., London
Eugenics Society Council 1931, 1937, 1952-53 V.P. 1947 Fellow 1957
Personal: b. 1895; d. 1966; educ. Mill Hill School; MB, BCh 1922; MD 1925; Physician to London Hospital and Maida Vale Hosp. for Nervous Diseases; MO, London and Scottish Assur. Co.; Pres: Family Planning Association, Royal College of Physicians (1950-57), Association of British Neurologists 1960; Mem., Royal Commission on Marriage and Divorce; Company Director: Brook Advisory Center Ltd. 1964; "Sum ergo cogito" on shield.
m. Stella Langdon Down 1920
(Stella Langdon Down; b. 1896; V.P., Family Planning Association 1981-88; daughter of Reginald Langdon Down q.v.)
daughter, Janet Stella, married Dr. L.J.H. Arthur q.v.
Pubns:
editor, "Brain", a neurology journal; Galatea: or the future of Darwinism. 1927; "Epilepsy and Nerv. Disease", chp. in Chances of Morbid Inheritance. (ed. C.P. Blacker q.v.) 1934; "Some reflections on genius", ER, v. 40, p. 12, Galton Lecture 1948; Man, Society and Religion. 1944; Mind, Perception and Science. 1951; Science and Man. 1966; Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System (which became Brain's Clinical Neurology, 9th edition by Sir John Walton 1986)
Source: ER 1931, 1957, ESAR 1937, WSW 1990, CH, Debretts 1988, Medical Directory 1947

Eugenics Society Member 1960
Source: ER 1960

55 Hampstead Way, London NW11, 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1921 Treas. 1929-33 Council 1922 Chmn., Council 1933-43 Fellow 1937
Personal: b. 1877, Newcastle; son of Sir Byrom Bramwell; educ. Edinburgh Univ. 1903 LLB; joined printers, Barclay and Fry 1907; m. Evelyn Hodgson; Chmn., Exec. Cttee Society of Genealogists 1936; Company Director, Barclay and Fry 1929; Barclay and Fry became the Metal Box Co.; interested in family investment trusts
Pubns:
"Old Cheltonian Society and the Masonic Lodge Connected with It." ER, Jan. 1949, p. 185
Source: ASP's Hist., ER, Vol. 60, p. 157; ESAR 1937; ER 1942-43; CH; Obit, ER January 1949, p. 188 ff

Baguley House, Baguley, Cheshire 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ER 1937, ESAR 1937

23 Drumsheugh Gardens, Edinburgh 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

The Lodge, Clifford Chambers, Stratford on Avon
Eugenics Society Fellow 1946 Council 1952-53 Fellow 1957, 1977
Personal: MA, MB Cambridge Univ. 1940; Major, RAMC; Medical Officer of Health, Borough of Stratford on Avon; Area Medical Officer, South Area, Warwickshire
Source: ER 1945-46, 1957, 1977 list, Medical Directory 1985, 1993

he Lodge, Clifford Chambers, Stratford on Avon
Eugenics Society Member 1946,1957
Personal: wife of J.B. Bramwell q.v.
Source: 1946, ER 1957

Cardiology and Systematic Medicine, Univ. of Manchester, Manchester
Eugenics Society Consultative Council 1957
Personal: y. son Byrom Bramwell MD (see Background below); MA, Cambridge Univ.; MB, ChB 1915; MRC Rockefeller Fellow 1923-24; FRCP 1929; Emeritus in Cardiology and Systematic Medicine, Univ. of Manchester (Prof. 1942-54); Examiner in Medicine; ret.; Ambleside, Westmoreland
Pubns:
Heart Disease in Pregnancy. 1938 (jt.)
Background: Byron Bramwell
(Byron Bramwell; 1847-27 April 1931; son of John Byrom Bramwell MD; m. Martha Crighton; att. Cheltenham Coll.; MB 1869; MD 1877; MO, Tynemouth Workhouse and Tynemouth Poor Law Dist.; resigned 1879; Lect., Edinburgh 1880; RCP (Pres.); Cons. Phys., Edinburgh Royal Infirmary; Cons. MO, Scottish Universal and National Insurance Co.; Pubns: Atlas of Clin. Medicine. 3 vols.; Studies in Clin. Med. 8 vols. 1903-10; Source: WWW
Source: ER 1957, Medical Directory 1946, 1958

Eugenics Society Member 1986
Personal: Lect., Edinburgh Univ.; defined self as "scientific racist" in controversy over his book, The 'g' Factor. This book was "depublished" by Wiley in March 1996 because of its content. It repeats the standard eugenic attacks on African intelligence using the standard eugenic research by men like Eysenck q.v. and Jensen q.v. who were funded as usual by the Pioneer Fund. For information on the book and controversy from the point of view of Chris Brand, look on the WEB under The G Factor Newsletter, their current URL is http://www.webcom.com/zurcher/thegfactor/index.html.
Source: B&S 1988

London
Eugenics Society Fellow 1939, 1957
Personal: Indian Civil servant (ret.) 1954
Pubns:
1954-55, "The next million years", ER, v. 46, p. 133 (C); Letter to IPPF newsletter in which he cites Ezekiel and Eccles. v. 11 to show that all UN plans to develop poorer regions will be useless unless population is controlled. (Around the World News of Population and Birth Control, May 1954)
Source: ER 1939, 1957

12 Dundonald St., Toronto, Canada 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1935, 1937
Source: ER 1935, ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1982
Personal: PhD Camb. 1981; BSc Witwatersrand; MRCOG 1982; MRC Clinical Research Cons., Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cambridge Univ. 1991; Lect., Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Cambridge Univ. 1991; Prof. and Head, Dept. OB-GYN, Guy's and St Thomas Hosp. 1993
Pubns: articles on male infertility,IVF, pre implantation diagnosis of genetic disease, early cell development
Source: Bulletin of the Eugenic Society 1983, Medical Directory 1991, 1993
Parthenogenetic Activation of Human Eggs:
Peter Braude, Prof. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St. Thomas Hospital; an egg "comes into contact with a chemical called A23187 ... the egg is fooled into thinking it is fertilised and the normal dividing process of the cell begins ... it behaves just like an embryo, only it isn't. It's still an unfertilised egg ... these eggs cannot develop into an embryo, and usually die after a few days ... During this time we can also extract genetic material from the Parthenotes for developing methods of testing potential hereditary diseases such as cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease and muscular dystrophy, without the ethical problems of working on embryos" (from article by Jenny Byrne, Today 32/1/91)

Eugenics Society Consultative Council 1937
Source: Eugenics Society Annual Report 1936-37

London
Eugenics Society Member 1977
Source: 1977 list

1165 Fifth Ave., New York, NY, USA
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1937, 1957, 1977
Personal: 1977 address: 2 East 86th St., New York, NY 10028, USA; 1937 address: Canadian Club of New York, 147 West 79th St, New York, NY, USA
Source: ESAR 1937, ER 1957, 1977 list

31 Mundon Rd., Maldon, Essex 1937, 1957
Eugenics Society Fellow 1936, 1937, 1957
Pubns:
"Eutelegenesis" ER July, p. 121-6, 1935; "Jews and Nordics" ER 1937-38, v. 28, p. 343 (does not attack Jews)
Source: ER 1936, 1957, ESAR 1937, ER Index, Periodical Index

Eugenics Society Fellow 1944
Personal: 1902-25 Dec. 1965; MB, BS 1925; MD 1927; Fellow, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists 1940; Obstetrics and Gynecology, Surgeon and Senior Tutor, London Hosp. 1931-65; Recog. Tutor to Pupil Midwives; Cons. Obstetric Surgeon, Queen Mary's Hosp.; Staff Exam., Central Midwives Board; Hunt Prof. RCS 1937 (year of Bourne case); Addresses: 20 Queen Anne St, London 1937; 16 Upper Wimpole St., London 1947
Pubns:
Eden and Holland's Manual of Obstetrics (1948, 1953, 1957) which then became Holland and Brew's Manual of Obstetrics 1963. (see The Sanctity of Life and the Criminal Law., especially the chapter on abortion where Eden and Holland is used. Holland is Eardley Holland q.v.), (see also: G. Williams q.v., J.H. Peel MD q.v. and E. Holland q.v.); Holland and Brews Manual Obstetrics. 12th ed. 1963; "Hydatidiform mole and chorionepithelioma", Blair Bell Mem. Lect. 1938; "Congenital retention of menses", w/ Robson Christie Brown q.v.
Source: ER 1944, Medical Directory 1937, 1946, 1947; WWW6

Maybridge Chemical Co., Tintagel, N. Cornwall
Eugenics Society Fellow 1977
Source: 1977 list

Eugenics Society Member 1932
Source: ER 1932

Eugenics Society Member 1931 Fellow 1931
Source: ER 1931

6L, Bickenhall Mansions, Gloucester Pl., London W1, 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Fellow 1933
Source: ER 1933

Eugenics Society Fellow Consultative Council
Personal: b. 1879; d. 29 April 1949; m. Margery Williams 1917; Oxford; PPS to MP's; Chmn., Board of Control 1928-45; Chmn., Dept. Cttee on Sterilisation (Brock Committee); Kt. 1935
Pubns:
Report of the Departmental Committee on Sterilization 1937 =Brock Report; "Psychiatry and the Public Health Service", J. Ment. Sci., v. 92, 1946
Source: Obit, ER, July 1949, p. 87; WWW4

Dept. of Social and Preventive Medicine, Manchester Univ., Manchester
Eugenics Society Hon. Life Fellow 1952, 1957, 1977
Personal: MA Cambridge Univ. 1928; Diploma in Public Health 1928; MD 1932; Medical Officer, Warwickshire 1938-42; Medical Officer, West Riding 1946-51; Adv. Council for Welfare of the Handicapped, Ministry of Health 1949-54; Dept. of Social and Preventive Medicine, Manchester Univ. (1951-64); ex County Medical Officer of Health, Warks; County Medical Officer, West Riding; Member: Council of the Society of Medical Officers of Health 1944-66 (see Killick Millard q.v.); Chmn., WHO Cttee on School Health 1950; WHO Research Study Group on Childhood Epilepsy 1955; lectures for British Council 1977; 1977 address Ballasalla, Isle of Man; Barrister
Pubns:
A Short History of Public Health.1956 (2nd ed. 1966); The Health of the Community. 1955; The Health of the Developing World. 1985
Source: ER 1952, 1957, Medical Directory 1958, 1977 list, WSW 1990
Quotes:
How Soon They Forget:
In 1953, quoting Dr. E. Sjovall, Dr. Brockington warned: "... an abortion will always be a dangerous and unbiological meth od, for the sharp severance of all the processes in the body of a pregnant women will often result in long lasting ill health ... the development of the hypoplastic organs of the young female is prone to undergo complete arrest as the result of abortion ..." from Report of the 4th International Conference, Planned Parenthood 1953 p. 85 quoted in ER 1966 p. 56)

London
Eugenic Society Fellow 1967, 1977
Founder (1963) and President Brook Advisory Centres (Chmn 1967-74)
Personal: Helen Mary Knewstub; b. 12 Oct 1907; Family Planning Association (Voluntary Worker 1949-, Company Director 1980, v.p. 1988); began first birth control instruction for single women at Marie Stopes Center 1960; Birth Control Campaign, Advisory Council; Family Planning Sales Ltd. (Shareholder, Chmn. 1974-1980); Family Planning Association (Holdings) Ltd. (Company Director); National Association of Family Planning Nurses (Vice President 1980- )
m. Sir Robin Brook
(Sir Ralph Ellis (Robin) Brook; b. 1908; son of Francis Brook of Harley St.; former director of Bank of England; Company Director: Brook Advisory Center Ltd., Family Planning Association Ltd.; Chmn. of Company Directors, Family Planning Sales Ltd. 1981-82; Member: City and Hackney District Health Authority 1974-85 ( = City and East London Health Authority); Leader of Trade mission to Rumania under Ceaucescau; Pres., London Homes for the Elderly; Govnr., St Bartholomew's Hosp. 1962-74 (Chmn., Special Trustees 1974-, President, Medical College 1969-, Chmn., Research Trust); ex Pres., London Chamber of Commerce)
Source: ER 1967,1977 list; WSW 1990, CH, Directory of Directors, Debretts 1988
Quotes:
State Control of Parenthood: " From birth till death it is now the privilege of the parental state to take major decisions--objective, unemotional, the State weighs up what is best for the child", Lady Brook in Letter to the Times 16 Feb 1980
Background: Who is Knewstub
?? daughter of John Knewstub; ?sister Deidre m. 3rd Baron Aberconway; 2nd Baron Aberconway; Pres., Royal Horticultural Society 1931-1953; his daughter is Anne McClaren; b. 1927; m. 1952 Donald Michie??Source: Burke's 105th ed.
Abortion Information from Brook's:
Brook Education and Publications Unit, 24 Albert St., Birmingham, B4 7UD Tel: 021-643 1554
Brook Advisory Centres and Abortion:
"Counselling of pregnant girls seeking abortion has become an important part of our work." Brook Annual report 1972 quoted by SPUC flyer on Brook in Northern Ireland "Those who choose to terminate their pregnancies are helped with referral to the NHS or an appropriate agency.", Brook Annual Report 1988-89 from SPUC flyer on Brook in Northern Ireland
Brook Advisory Centres and Condoms:
Wise Up to Condoms, leaflet produced inconjunction with Durex, the condom manufacturer

Wallington, Surrey
Eugenics Society Member 1947, 1957
Source: ER 1947, 1957

Derby
Eugenics Society Member 1951, 1957
Source: ER 1951, 1957

Abergele, Wales
Eugenics Society Member 1977
Source: 1977 list

London
Eugenics Society Hon. Sec. 1986-89, 1991, 1994
Pubns:
Ass't Editor, Biology and Society 1990
Source: CH, Galton Institute Newsletter 1991, Brooks letter on annual meeting 1994

Institute of Archaeology, London
Eugenics Society Fellow 1977
Source: 1977 list

Avebury, Marlborough, Wilts
Eugenics Society Fellow 1963 Editorial Board, ER 1968 V.P. 1984
Personal: University teacher 1984
Source: ER 1963, 1968; B&S; CH

London
Eugenics Society Librarian 1970
Personal: Principle Scientific Officer (Physical Anthropology), British Museum 1970
Pubns:
1963 Dental Anthropology. (ed.); 1965 "Facial variation" w/ R.G. Harvey, ER, v. 57, p. 167; 1965 Science in Archaeology (1969); 1967 Diseases in Antiquity; 1967 "The Amerindians of Guyana: a biological review", ER, v. 59, p. 22; 1969 Food in Antiquity.; 1971 "Disease, microevolution and earlier populations: an important bridge between medical history and human biology", in Modern Methods History of Medicine. E. Clarke (ed.), Athlone Press; 1972 Digging Up Bones., British Museum pub.; 1973 Population Biology of the Ancient Egyptians.; 1977 Biosocial Man (ed.), Institute of Biology for Eugenics Society; 1980 Animal Diseases in Archaeology.; 1986 The bog man and the archaeology of people., British Museum pub.; 1986 Lindow Man.; 1993 "Drugs in ancient populations", Lancet, v. 341; 1994 Ancient trephining: multi focal evolution or world wide diffusion", J. Paleopathology, v. 6, 3
Source: CH

Eugenics Society Fellow 1938
Source: ER 1938

Sharvells, Milford on Sea, Lymington, Hants 1937
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

69 Ecclestone Sq., London
Eugenics Society Member 1957
Source: ER 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1982
Source: Bulletin of the Eugenic Society 1983

Eugenics Society General Secretary 1920
Source: ER 1920

Eugenics Society Member 1933
Source: ER 1933

Pusey, Farington, Berks
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937, 1957
Personal: b. 1874; d. 1963; m. Violet, daughter of WP Galton; no children; Navy career; High Sheriff of Berkshire 1931; 1937 address: Stanford Pl., Faringdon, Berks
Source: ESAR 1937; ER 1957, WWW

Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ER 1937

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1977
Personal: Plutonium and the Bomb
Pubns:
The Challenge of Man's Future.1954; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Source: 1977 list

Beaulieu, Loughton, Essex
Eugenics Society Member 1954, 1957
Source: ER 1954, 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1939
Source: ER 1939

5 The Avenue, Christ's Hospital, Horsham, Sussex 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1936, 1937
Source: ER 1936, ESAR 1937

117 Harley St., London 1957
Eugenics Society Fellow 1944, 1957
Personal: b. 1898; d. 13 Dec. 1971; MB, BS Durham 1920; Examiner, Central Midwives Board and RCOG; Tutor in Ob-Gyn, London Hosp. Medical School 1958; Cons. Gyn., St Mary's Hosp. 1937; Trustee, C.B. Med. Research Fund.; 40 Harley St, London; Leeds Univ.
Pubns:
Textbook of Midwifery.1940; Reproduction and Survival.1948
Source: ER 1944, 1957, Medical Directory 1947, 1958; WWW7

Eugenics Society Member 1959
Source: ER 1959

Eugenics Society Member 1938
Personal: co director Abortion Law Reform Association (ALRA) at the time of the Bourne case; Vice-Chairman, ALRA 1936-55
Pubns:
Abortion.1935 ("our bodies are own" said the review of this book in ER, 1936, p. 74); 1955-56 "The Eugenics Society", ER, v. 47, p. 67 (C)
Source: ER 1938, Obit, 1955-56, Vol. 47 (N) p. 79

Eugenics Society Member 1985
Personal: Member, Institute of Biology
Source: B&S 1986

Eugenics Society Member 1942
Source: ER 1942

Deventer, Holland
Eugenics Society Member 1942, 1948
Source: ER 1942, 1948

Eugenics Society Member 1933
Source: ER 1933

Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ER 1937

Highbury Mansions, Church Rd, St. Leonards on Sea, Sussex 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Member 1987
Source: B&S 1988

Tenterden, Kent
Eugenics Society Member 1948, 1957, 1962
Source: ER 1948, 1957, 1962

1589 Midland Ave., Bronxville, New York, USA 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1932, 1937
Pubns:
Control of Conception. w/ R. L. Dickinson 1931, 1932
Source: ER 1932, ESAR 1937

Eugenics Society Fellow 1931
Personal: MRCS, LRCP 1894; DTM and Hygiene 1907 (Camb.); PMO, Johore and British North Borneo; 14 Cromwell Rd. Hove, Sussex 1931
Source: ER 1931; Med Dir 1931

9 Wilton Cres., London SW1, 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Personal: MRCS, LRCP 1900; MD 1902 (Camb.); Cons. Phys., Children's Rest Home, Roehampton 1937, 1947; MO Belgian Ladies Mat. Home
Source: ESAR 1937; Med Dir 1937, 1947

Sutton Donington, Loughborough, Leics
Eugenics Society Fellow 1955, 1957
Source: ER 1955, 1957

15 Princes Gate, London SW7, 1937
Eugenics Society Fellow 1937
Personal: Ethel Mary Piercy; married 2nd Bt. (Sir Robt. William Buchanan Jardine; b. 1868; m. Ethel Piercy 1894; lived in Lockerbie; d. 30 Jan. 1927); she died 1952; 3rd Bt. succ father in 1927; Buchanan Jardines have been Masters of Dumfrieshire Foxhounds 1921-(1987) Source: ESAR 1937; Debretts 1987; WWW3; WWW6

Animal Breeding Dept. University of Edinburgh
Eugenics Society Fellow 1957
Personal: Lord Balerno q.v.; born 1898 Alick Drummond Smith; son of Rev. Sir George Adam Smith q.v.; took Buchanan Smith in 1945; Order of the British Empire 1939; Lord Balerno cr. 1963; Dep. Chmn., Unionist Party, Scotland 1960-63 ; MA, BSc, (Aberdeen Univ., Iowa, USA); DSc, Edinburgh; Lect. in Animal Genetics, Univ. of Edinburgh 1925-61; Gordon Highlanders (1917-19, 1936-41, Hon. Col. 1958-61); Dir., Selection of Personnel, War Office 1942-45; Pres., Royal Scottish Geographical Society 1968-
sons
1. George Adam Buchanan Smith
(George Adam Smith; b. 1929; BD Union Theological Seminary, NY, USA 1955);
2. Alick Laidlaw Buchanan Smith
(Alick Laidlaw; b. 1932; Gordon Highlanders; MP for North Angus and Mearns, then Kincardine and Deeside (which in cludes Braemar where Hum anae Vitae House is located) 1964-1991; d. 1991 )
3. Robert Dunlop Buchanan Smith
(Robert Dunlop; Chaplain to 3rd Battalion. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders 1966-; British Council of Churches, Preacher to the USA 1968 ) 4. Jock Gordon Buchanan Smith (Gordon Highlanders; Assist. Prof., Univ., of Guelph, Canada; educ. Univ. of Abderdeen BSc (Agricul ture),Texas Tech. Oklahoma State Univ.);
Uncles:
1. James Robert Dunlop Smith
(James Robert Dunlop Smith; Private Sec. to Earl of Minto, Viceroy of India 1905-1910)
2. William Townsend Smith
(William Townsend Smith; teaplanter at Cachar)
3. Charles Aitchison Smith
(Charles Aitchison Smith; Political Dept., Govt. of India)
sisters
1. Isabel
(Isabel Buchanan m. Sir George Paget Thomson, Master of Corpus Christi)
2. Janet
(Janet Buchanan m. Michael Roberts who died 1948; then m. John Carleton, Headmaster, Westminster School)
3. Margaret
(Margaret Elphinstone m. Ian Clarke who died Sept 30, 1939; Adviser to Women students, Univ. of Aberdeen)
Source: ER 1957, Debretts 1976, Burke's

Kensington, London
Eugenics Society Member 1953, 1957
Source: ER 1953, 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1935
Source: ER 1935

Eugenics Society Education Cttee 1916
Source: ER 1916

Oxford
Eugenics Society Member 1949, 1957, 1977
Personal: 1957 address, Camelford, Cornwall
Source: ER 1949, 1957, 1977 list

Dry Sandford Abington, Berks 1957
Eugenics Society Life Fellow 1937, 1957
Personal: b. 1885; d. 1976; 1937 address: East India United Service Club, 16 St. James Square, London SW1
Pubns:
Britain and the Middle East. 1964; The Camels Must Go. 1961 (autobiog.) Source: ESAR 1937, ER 1957, WWW v.7

Liverpool
Eugenics Society Council 1916
Source: ER 1916

Eugenics Society Writer for Bulletin 1980 Council 1993
Personal: MB 1961; DCH 1963; ex-MRC Fellow, MRC Clinical Genetics Unit, Institute of Child Health, London; Sen. Lect., Clinical Genetics, Univ., Birmingham 1993; Clinical Genetics Unit, Birmingham Hosp. 1993 Pubns:
Genetics and Neurology., Edinburgh 1985 (written for trainee and practicing doctors), A.E.H. Emery q.v., General editor of the series, reviewed in 1989 Social Biology, v.35, 3-4, p. 344; "Julia Bell MRCS, LRCP, FRCP 1879-1979: steamboat lady, statistician, and geneticst", J. Med. Biog., v. 4, Feb. 1996
Source: Unsigned articles for Bulletin of the Eugenic Society; Galton Institute Annual Report 1993; Med Dir 1993

Eugenics Society Member 1965
Source: ER 1965

Eugenics Society Member 1967
Source: ER 1967

Eugenics Society Member 1963
Source: ER 1963

Eugenics Society Member 1945
Personal: b. 1877; d. 1951; Indian Railroads (Agent, General Manager, Great Indian Peninsula Railway 1928-32; Director, Nizam's State Railway 1932-37); Companion of the Order of the Indian Empire (CIE)
Source: ER 1945, WWW

Eugenics Society Fellow 1946
Personal: MB 1930; MD 1933; DPH, BHy 1933; DHy 1944; MOH, City of Salford 1947; Lect. in Public Health, Univ. Manchester 1965; has son J.L. Burn Jr. MB 1983 (Manch.)
Pubns:
"Effects of vitamin suppl. on the health of children", BMJ 1946; Recent Adv. in Public Health 1947 (2nd ed. 1959);
Source: ER 1946; Med Dir 1947, 1965

Dept. of Plant Sciences, Oxford Univ., Oxford
Eugenics Society Member 1956, 1957 Consult. Council 1958 Fellow 1977
Executive Secretary, World Council for the Biosphere 1987-
Personal: b. 1922; Prof. of Botany, Univ. of St. Andrews 1955-60 (Dean of Faculty of Science, St. Andrews 1958-60); Chmn., Scottish Horticultural Research Institute 1959-74; Mem., Nature Conservancy 1961-69; Nuffield Foundation Biology Project 1962-68 (Chmn., 1965-68); Sibthorpian Prof. of Rural Economy and Fellow, St. Johns College, Oxford Univ.,1970-79; Principal and Vice Chancellor, University of Edinburgh 1979-87; Nature Conservancy Council, Scottish Cttee 1980-89 (Dep. Chmn., 1988-89)
Pubns:
Vegetation of Scotland. (ed.) 1964; Mycogenetics.1975; Speciation and Evolution in Fungi.1989; The Maintenance of the Biosphere.1989 Proc. of 3rd International Conference on Environmental Future 1987
Source: ER 1956, 1957, 1958, WSW 1990, 1977 list

London
Eugenics Society Consultative Council 1937, 1957
Personal: Fraud
Pubns:
The distribution and relations of educational abilities. 1917 for LCC; Mental and Scholastic Tests. 1921; "The meaning and assessment of intelligence", ER, v. 47, p. 81, Galton Lecture 1955; "Class differences in general intelligence: III", British Journal of Statistical Psychology, v. 12, 1959, p. 15; Intelligence and Fertility. 1946; The Subnormal Mind., rev. ed. 1977; The Backward Child. (1st ed. 1937; 5th ed., 1961); The Gifted Child. 1975
Significance
Both before and after World War II one of the chief arguments of eugenicists was that national intelligence was declining due to poor breeding control. This argument rested on the work of psychologists, mainly eugenic society members, who measured intelligence. These psychologists asserted that intelligence was largely fixed by genetic inheritance and could be measured with scientific accuracy.
The most important of these psychologists was Sir Cyril Burt; others were Spearman, Terman, R.B. Cattell (The Fight for Our National Intelligence.1937), and H.J. Eysenck. All these were in the English or American Eugenics Society or both.
In 1969 Arthur Jensen used their work to claim that blacks are genetically inferior in IQ and incapable of benefitting from the same education as whites. During the ensuing controversy Burt's figures were questioned. In 1979 L.S. Hearnshaw, Burt's authorized biographer, stated that Burt's data for most of the post World War II period was fraudulent. ( see Cyril Burt, psychologist, 1979 ) Since Hearnshaw had been a member of the Eugenics Society and President of the British Association of Psychologists, his conclusions were accepted.
Burt's figures were totally interwoven with the work of everyone else in the field. This may be seen from a study of the Science Citation Index where, typically, three or four pages of citations are listed under Burt's name in each yearly volume. Thus, Burt's fraud was not his problrm alone but called the conclusions of the entire field into question.
In 1990 the Galton Institute (i.e. Eugenics Society) and the Rationalist Press Association began to campaign for Burt's rehabilitation. Their argument was that he done in by enemies of a left wing persuasion after his death. In fact he was "done in" by L.S. Hearnshaw, his authorized biographer, a eugenicist and a very distinguished psychologist.
Or perhaps it's time to admit that Burt was done in by Burt. He alone committed the fraud.
Can the field of intelligence testing survive his fraud? Will the Eugenics Society (Galton Institute) apologize to the black community for inadvertently supporting Cyril Burt in his racist fraud? Or will they commit a second fraud of their own by denying and covering up the first, now that Professor Hearnshaw is dead and cannot answer them.
In 1995 in The Bell Curve Charles Murray attempted to use once more Cyril Burt's arguments and those of his disciples, especially Arthur Jensen. He too claims that Burt was done in by a leftist attack, disregarding Hearnshaw's research.
Source: ESAR 1937, ER 1957, New Humanist, Galton Newsletter, Cyril Burt, psychologist.1979, WSW 1990, WWW, Science Citation Index, Arthur Jensen's books
Background:
"...neither Burt nor any of his alleged assistants carried out any field work after 1955 and it is probable that all his data such as it was has been collected prior to his retirement in 1950, most of it indeed prior to the second World War."from Cyril Burt, psychologist, p. 239

Eugenics Society Member 1941
Source: ER 1941

Leatherhead, Surrey
Eugenics Society Member 1957
Source: ER 1957

Eugenics Society Council 1933
Source: ER 1933

Dept. of Sociology, Essex Univ., Colchester, Essex
Eugenics Society Fellow 1977
Source: 1977 list

Eugenics Society Member 1981
Personal: Fellow, Royal Statistical Society
Source: Bulletin of the Eugenic Society 1982

9 Hilda St., Brantford, Ont., Canada
Eugenics Society Fellow 1957
Source: ER 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1945
Source: ER 1945

Dept. of Cytogenetics, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, London
Eugenics Society Fellow 1966, 1977
Source: ER 1966, 1977 list

The Cottage, Whinney Hill, Durham 1937
Eugenics Society Member 1937
Source: ESAR 1937

Stafford
Eugenics Society Member 1946, 1957
Source: ER 1946, 1957

Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Eugenics Society Fellow 1947, 1957
Source: ER 1947, 1957

Eugenics Society Member 1961
Source: ER 1961