British Library of Political and Economic Science WALLAS
WALLAS GRAHAM 1858 1932 POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGIST
Extent: 44 boxes Biographical History Graham Wallas was born in Sunderland in 1858 and educated at Shrewsbury School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he obtained a second class in Literae Humaniores in 1881. After leaving Oxford, he became a schoolmaster. In 1884 he obtained an appointment as a classics master at Highgate School, but left in 1890 after refusing to take communion as part of his duties. He found work as a university extension lecturer and continued lecturing on an occasional basis in both Britain and the USA even after his appointment to the London School of Economics. He became a lecturer at the LSE in 1895, and became the School's first Professor of Political Science in 1914. He retired from the LSE in 1923.
He married Ada Radford (also known as Audrey) in 1897. They had one daughter, May, born Scope and Content Papers created by or collected by Graham Wallas, including personal and professional correspondence, manuscripts of his lectures, articles and books, notes, engagement diaries and press cuttings. The main subjects covered include education (particularly school and university management, university extension and religious education), local government in London, national and international politics, public administration and social psychology. Also includes papers collected or created by Ada Wallas and May Wallas, notably Wallas' letters to both Ada and May, Ada's diaries, and correspondence and papers relating to posthumous publications of Wallas' works, edited by May Wallas. For the custodial history of the collection and related material in other Archives Division collections, please see the printed catalogue. | |
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