Shepherd Dawson
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Dr Shepherd Dawson FRSE (1880 – 1935) was a British psychologist and author. He specialised in a deeper understanding of Encephalitis lethargica and in the effects of childhood epilepsy upon intelligence. He was a strong believer in the use of statistics to demonstrate clinical conclusions.[1] He served as president of the Psychological section of the British Medical Association.[2]
Life[edit]
Dawson was born in Whitehaven on the north-west coast of England.
He studied at Owen's College, Manchester graduating MA in 1902 and gaining a DSc after postgraduate study at King's College, London. Whilst in London he studied statistics under Karl Pearson and became fascinated by their use within clinical psychology.[3] From 1910 he was Principal Lecturer in Psychology and Logic & Ethics at Jordanhill College in Glasgow.[4] He was concurrently the Consulting Psychologist for the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Glasgow.[5]
In 1931 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. His proposers were James Drever, Sir William Wright Smith, Sir Godfrey Hilton Thomson, and James Hartley Ashworth.[6]
He died in a Glasgow nursing home on 26 March 1935.
Publications[edit]
From 1921 to 1927 he was joint editor of the Psychological Index. He also made numerous contributions to the British Journal of Psychology. His books include:
- Introduction to the Computation of Statistics (1933)
- Archives of Disease in Childhood (1934)
References[edit]
- ^ Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science, 27 April 1935
- ^ British Journal of Psychology, 26, pp. 117-119.
- ^ Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 55 (January 1936) p. 146-147.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 February 2016. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
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- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 January 2013. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
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