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Sargant (other)
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Sargant may refer to *Edmund Beale Sargant (1855–1935), British colonial administrator *Ethel Sargant (1863–1918), British botanist *Naomi Sargant (1933–2006), British educationalist *Thomas Sargant (1905–1988), British law reformer *William Sargant (1907–1988), British psychiatrist *Alix Sargant Florence (1892–1973), birth name of Alix Strachey, American-born British psychoanalyst *Mary Sargant Florence (1857–1954), British figure painter *Philip Sargant Florence (1890–1982), American economist See also *Sargent (name) Sargent is a surname of Latin (possibly Etruscan), early medieval English and Old French origin, and has also been used as a given name. Background The surname of Sargent in the various ways in which it is spelled is said to have come from the Lat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Beale Sargant
Edmund Beale Sargant (19 March 1855 – 1 October 1938) was a colonial administrator in the British Empire, particularly notable for his policy of introducing English in the South African educational system in the first years of the twentieth century, as Director of Education for the Transvaal and Orange River Colony under Alfred Milner, and in the aftermath of the Second Boer War. ''The Sargant Repor''t (1905) was important for the future of education in the Transvaal. Sargant founded and funded a shortlived school in Hackney, London, called 'School Field'. Its purpose was to demonstrate that children could be given a better education if their teachers were not bound by a narrow curriculum and were not required to focus on success in attainment tests in order to ensure school funding. He was also a poet, appearing in particular in the first of the ''Georgian Poetry'' anthologies. Works *''A Guide Book to Books'' (1891), compendium of book titles, with Bernhard Whishaw Bernhard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ethel Sargant
Ethel Sargant (28 October 1863 – 16 January 1918) was a British botanist who studied both the cytology and morphology of plants. She was one of the first female members of the Linnean Society and the first woman to serve on their council. She was the first woman to preside over a Section of the British Association. At Cambridge, she was elected an Honorary Fellow of Girton College in 1913 and also became President of the British Federation of University Women from 1913 until 1918. Early life Sargant was born on 28 October 1863. She was the third daughter of barrister Henry Sargant and his wife Catherine Emma Beale. She studied at North London Collegiate School under Frances Mary Buss at a time when all girls schools were considered an "adventurous experiment" and from 1881 to 1885 at Girton College, Cambridge. Her sister Mary Sargant Florence was a painter and feminist, while her brother Sir Charles Sargant was a senior judge. Career A list of Sargant's publications is pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naomi Sargant
Naomi Ellen Sargant, Baroness McIntosh of Haringey (10 December 1933 – 23 July 2006) was a British academic specialising in adult education and a television executive. Early life The daughter of Thomas Sargant, first secretary of JUSTICE, and Czech-born philologist Marie Hlouskova, Sargant was educated at Friends School Saffron Walden, later graduating from Bedford College, University of London with a degree in sociology. After an early career in market research and consumer interests (she was an associate of Michael Young on the National Consumer Council) Sargant became a college lecturer in 1967 and joined the new Open University in 1970, for whom (as Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Student Affairs) from 1974 to 1978) she presented the ''Open Forum'' programme on radio and television. Later life and career Sargant became professor of applied social research in 1978, remaining in the post until leaving the OU in 1981 to join Channel 4 Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Sargant
Thomas Sargant (1905–1988) was a British law reformer who campaigned for the promotion of human rights. Biography Sargant, who was educated at Highgate School, was for much of his life a businessman and politician who became increasingly concerned with the impact of the law and legal services upon ordinary people. In the mid-1950s, he was asked to help mobilise lawyers in support of those accused in treason trials in Hungary and South Africa, and JUSTICE was set up as a result. Tom Sargant became its first Secretary and was a driving force of the organisation until his retirement in 1982. As a result of his commitment, persistence and determination, JUSTICE played a key role in taking up the cause of miscarriage of justice cases. Sargant's tireless campaigning resulted in some 25 people being released, or released early, from prison. He was instrumental in the establishment of the BBC series ''Rough Justice'', which led to the release of 18 victims of miscarriages of justic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Sargant
William Walters Sargant (24 April 1907 – 27 August 1988) was a British psychiatrist who is remembered for the evangelical zeal with which he promoted treatments such as psychosurgery, deep sleep treatment, electroconvulsive therapy and insulin shock therapy.Dally 2004 Sargant studied medicine at St John's College, Cambridge, and qualified as a doctor at St Mary's Hospital, London. His ambition to be a physician was thwarted by a disastrous piece of research and a nervous breakdown, after which he turned his attention to psychiatry. Having trained under Edward Mapother at the Maudsley Hospital, in South London, he worked at the Sutton Emergency Medical Service during the Second World War. In 1948 he was appointed director of the department of psychological medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, London, and remained there until (and after) his retirement in 1972, whilst also treating patients at other hospitals, building up a lucrative private practice in Harley Street, and worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alix Sargant Florence
Alix Strachey (4 June 1892 – 28 April 1973), née Sargant-Florence, was an American-born British psychoanalyst and, with her husband, the translator into English of ''The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud''. Life Strachey was born in Nutley, New Jersey, United States on 4 June 1892. She was the daughter of Henry Smyth Florence, an American musician, and Mary Sargant Florence, a British painter.Dany Nobus, ‘Strachey, James Beaumont (1887–1967)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200accessed 16 Feb 2017/ref> Her brother, Philip Sargant Florence, became an economist and married the birth control activist Lella Faye Secor. Alix's father died in an accident when she was a baby. She attended Bedales School, the Slade School of Fine Art, and Newnham College, Cambridge, where she read modern languages. In 1915 she moved in with her brother in his flat in Bloomsbury and became a member of the Bloomsbury Group, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Sargant Florence
Emma Mary Sargant Florence (21 July 1857 – 14 December 1954) was a British painter of figure subjects, mural decorations in fresco and occasional landscapes in watercolour and pastel. Biography Emma Mary Sargant was born in London. Her father, Henry Sargant, was a barrister and her mother, Catherine Emma Beale. Her siblings included: judge Charles Henry Sargant, botanist Ethel Sargant, headmaster Walter Lee Sargant and the sculptor Francis William Sargant. She studied in Paris under Luc-Olivier Merson, and, at the Slade School under Alphonse Legros. She was a member of the New English Art Club and the Society of Painters in Tempera. In 1888, she married Henry Smyth Florence, an American musician. They had two children: Philip Sargant Florence, the economist, and Alix Strachey, the psychoanalyst and translator of Freud. She lived in Nutley, New Jersey in a carriage house that became a studio used by other local artists. After her husband drowned in 1891, she moved to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Sargant Florence
Philip Sargant Florence (25 June 1890 – 29 January 1982) was an American economist who spent most of his life in the United Kingdom. Life His wife Lella Secor Florence and their children Born in Nutley, New Jersey in the United States, he was the son of Henry Smyth Florence, an American musician, and Mary Sargant Florence, a British painter. His sister was Alix Strachey. He was educated at Windlesham House School, Rugby School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, before studying for his PhD at Columbia University in New York City. In 1917 he married the writer and birth control advocate Lella Faye Secor. In 1921 he was appointed as a lecturer in economics at the University of Cambridge, and in 1929 he was made Professor of Commerce at the University of Birmingham, where he remained until his retirement in 1955. He was a friend of Robert Dudley Best, and a mentor of Hilde Behrend Hilde Behrend (13 August 1917 – 11 January 2000) was an economist known for her research ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
