Summerfield, Sir Arthur (1923-2005) papers

British Psychological Society, Australian Branch: circular to members of the Executive Committee, 2 Jul 1957, "The Disclosure of Information by Psychologists", also unconfirmed minutes of meeting of the Executive Committee, 11 Apr 1958

Materials relating to Standing Committee on Publications/Journal Committee:
"Report on the Sample Survey of Wishes and Opinions of Members regarding the Proposed New Journal", 11 Nov 1957
Business for the Council Meeting on 1 February 1958: Publications Committee: Proposed New Journal
Correspondence, Feb-Aug 1958, with G B Pyrah, Leicester University Press; Joseph Sandler, editor, British Journal of Medical Psychology; A L Swan, Sole, Sawbridge & Co Solicitors; Boris Semeonoff; Sir Cyril Burt; Philip E Vernon, British Journal of Educational Psychology; Howard Jones; A N Oppenheim;
A few ms notes and calculations by Summerfield

Letters, May-Jul 1959, from recently elected Honorary Fellows: Melanie Klein; Fr. Agostino Gemelli; May Smith; C W Valentine, "T.M."

(Letter to "Dear Grace", 16 Dec 1959 from Summerfield, covering note to "documents which ought to be in the archives of the B.P.S. rather than in my files" transferred to depositor file)

Born in 1923, Summerfield spent the early part of his life in Wilmslow Cheshire. A member of the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve Force, he was called up to active naval service in 1943. In 1949 he became a lecturer at University College London, then Head of the Department of Psychology at Birkbeck College. His expertise ranged from the effects of nuclear bombs to the role of psychology in education.He was also active in the British Psychological Society and held the post of Honorary General Secretary from 1954 to 1959.. In 1989 he retired and set up his own firm of chartered psychologists with his wife, Angela. This ran for 11 years before the couple moved to Sutton under Whitestonecliffe in 2001. He died of a brain haemorrhage at Northallerton's Friarage Hospital in 2005.