| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| AdminHistory | Born 3 October 1904 in Dundee; attended Dundee High School 1910-1922; attended University of Edinburgh 1922-1928 (English Literature and Language 1926; BEd 1928; teacher training for primary and secondary certificates of Scottish Education Department 1927); awarded a one year scholarship by the Scottish National Committee for the Training of Teachers to attend the University of Columbia 1928-1929 where he studied comparative education and educational psychology; taught at Moray House School (English and Language in the Secondary Department); appointed HMI 1931 as the first non-medical Inspector of 'Special Schools for handicapped children' [schools for children with disabilities]; in 1945 became Staff Inspector; served on Minister of Education's 'Advisory Committee on Handicapped Children [children with disabilities]'; Assessor on the Examination Boards of the National College of Teachers of the Deaf and College of Teachers of the Blind; Liasion Inspector for various training colleges and University Departments of Education; served as a UNESCO representative on a joint World Health Organisation and UNESCO working party on children with learning disabilities; member of the British Psychological Society (Fellow from 1944); reviewed the work of the BFES in Germany after the Second World War; completed a five-month visit to Australia and New Zealand at the request of their governments in 1954; spent three months in USA to survey teaching practices in deaf schools in 1959. In 1965 was appointed Senior Lecturer at the IOE in the 'Education of Physically Handicapped Children' [children with physical disabilities]. |
| CustodialHistory | Collected by James Lumsden's family and given to the archives. |