Person Nunn, Sir Thomas Percy (1870-1944), educationist 1870-1944 Educationist GB/366/28 Nunn was born in Bristol in 1870, the son of a schoolmaster. He was educatd and taught in his father's school. Joined the staff of the London Day Training College in 1903 where he taught mathematics and science and supervised the arrangements for teaching practice. In 1905 he was appointed Vice-Principal and was Principal of the College, 1922-1932 and Director of the Institute of Education, University of London, 1932-1936. He became a University Professor of Education in 1913. Knighted in 1930. Nunn sat on the Board of Education's Consultative Committee, was an influential witness to the Hadow Committee, served on the Labour Party's advisory committee onn education, and was a member of the Child Guidance Council. His academic interests were broad, encompassing science, mathematics, philosophy and psychology Nunn was involved in a wide range of organisations, including the Aristotelian Society, the British Association, the British Psychological Society, the Mathematical Association and the Training College Association. He was also one of the vice-president of the international conferences of the New Education Fellowship. His publications included The Aims and Achievements of cientific Method: An Epistomological Essay (1907) and Relativity and Gravitation (1923), but it is for Education: Its Data and First Principles (1920) that he became most famous. Died in Madeira in December 1944 Aldrich Personal Institute/Staff/Directors/Nunn 06/09/1999 Hjralmp 25/03/2009 Mkklibyz Nunn; Sir; Thomas Percy (1870-1944); Educationist Nunn Thomas Percy Sir 7ea83831-0720-4b7a-9087-ee2c8f288478