Thomas Simey, Baron Simey
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
Web links
- Thomas Simey at Hansard (English)
- Entry in Cracroft's Peerage
- Entry in Leigh Rayment Peerage
- Thomas Spensley Simey, Baron Simey on thepeerage.com , accessed September 13, 2016.
- Entry in the National Portrait Gallery (London)
- Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe: International Lexicon of Sociology: 1945-1968; 1969-1984 , 1980, p. 389, ISBN 3-432-82652-4
- Proof of publication in Google Books
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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 |