Charles Spearman, 1863-1945

Abstract

Abstract Charles Spearman was born in London on 10 September 1863, and died there on 17 September 1945. He was survived by Mrs Spearman and their daughters; But their only son was killed in Crete in 1941. Even in his schooldays, he has told us, he was ambitious to follow an academic career. But, yielding to ‘the mouthful delusion that life is long’, he tried first a spell in the army as a regular officer of Engineers, went through the Burma campaign of that time, and then, mourning the lost years and fired by zeal for the developing science of experimental psychology, he resigned his commission and went to study under Wundt at his newly founded laboratory at Leipzig. There he came into contact with Krueger and Wirth, both of whom he much admired. His stay in Germany was interrupted by further military service during the Boer War. He served as the Staff Officer for Guernsey, and met there his future wife. They were married in 1901.

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