Thomas Simey, Baron Simey

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Thomas Spensley Simey, Baron Simey (born November 25, 1906 , † December 27, 1969 ) was a British lawyer , sociologist , university professor and politician who became a member of the House of Lords in 1965 as a life peer under the Life Peerages Act 1958 .

Life

Simey, son of Solicitors George Iliff Simey, who from 1905 to 1927 member of the Council of the County of Somerset , was completed after school to study at Balliol College of Oxford University , which he in 1928 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) completed. Subsequent further studies at Balliol College, he finished in 1931 with a Master of Arts (MA) and then took up a job as a solicitor like his father and older brother William Spensley Simey.

Shortly thereafter, Simey was first lecturer in administrative sciences at the University of Liverpool in 1931 , before he took over a professorship in social sciences at the University of Liverpool in 1939 and taught there until his death in 1969. As a university lecturer, Simey, who was a member of the British Sociological Association , mainly dealt with socio-political issues.

By letters patent dated May 12, 1965, he was raised to the nobility due to the Life Peerages Act 1958 as a life peer with the title Baron Simey , of Toxteth in the County Palatine of Lancaster, and thus belonged to the House of Lords until his death as a member.

Publications

  • Colonial Policy on Trial: The Test Case of Jamaica , 1928
  • Local Government on Merseyside , co-author David Caradog Jones, Daily Post Printers, 1933
  • Principles of Social Administration , Oxford University Press, 1937
  • The Civil Defense Acts, 1937 and 1939 , co-authors Frank Edward Price and Mary Lewis Williams, London 1939
  • Memos Relating to Youth Services in Jamaica , co-author Frank Arthur Stockdale, 1941
  • Social Welfare Work , Frank Arthur Stockdale, 1941
  • Prison , co-author Frank Arthur Stockdale, 1941
  • Re-organization of Poor Relief , coauthors Frank Arthur Stockdale and Rupert Briercliffe, 1941
  • Youth Organizations for Boys in Jamaica , 1942
  • Social Welfare in Barbados , 1942
  • Social Welfare Organization in Jamaica: Jamaica Welfare Limited , co-authors DT Girvin, Jessie Irwin and EB Hallett, 1941
  • Leeward Islands: Report of Social Welfare Adviser , 1942
  • Social Welfare: Windward Islands , United States Government Printing Office , 1943
  • Principles of Prison Reform , 1944
  • Welfare & Planning in the West Indies , Clarendon Press, 1946
  • Salaries and conditions of work of social workers: A report ... , The National Council of Social Service, 1947
  • Social Research Series , 1952
  • Social Services in Israel. Prepared for the Government of Israel , co-author Dorothy C. Kahn 1953
  • The concept of love in child care , Oxford University Press, 1961
  • Social Purpose and Social Science: Eleanor Rathbone Memorial Lecture , Liverpool University Press, 1968
  • Social science and social purpose , Schocken Books, 1969
  • Charles Booth: Social Scientist , 1980, ISBN 978-0-313-22610-6
in German language
  • The Contribution of the Social Sciences to Solving Administrative Problems , 1953

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personal data
SURNAME Simey, Thomas, Baron Simey
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Simey, Thomas Spensley, Baron Simey (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British sociologist, university professor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1906
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 1969