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CHARLES E. SPEARMAN was born in London on September 10, 1863. He came of a Northumberland family, the more prominent members of which had been either Army officers or mining engineers. With one or other of these possible professions in view, he gave himself assiduously in his early youth to the study of applied mathematics. Eventually he entered the Army, and served in the Burmese War. During the Boer War he was deputy assistant adjutant-general in Guernsey; and in this way became interested in problems of personnel. He resigned his commission in order to study experimental psychology at Leipzig, at Göttingen, and at Würzburg.
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BURT, C. Prof. C. E. Spearman, F.R.S.. Nature 156, 740–741 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/156740a0
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