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THE death occurred on Thursday, December 23, of MR. FRANK PULLINGER, C.B., Chief Inspector of the Technological Branch of the Board of Education. Mr. Pullinger, who was born in 1866, was educated at Manchester Grammar School, Owens College, Manchester, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He took a First Class in the Final Honours School of Natural Science in 1887, and in 1889 was elected Burdett Coutts scholar of the University. After spending a year in research work at Oxford and another year as a University extension lecturer, he was in 1891 appointed Secretary for Education to the Devonshire County Council. This post he relinquished in 1894 in order to take up an appointment as an Inspector of Schools under the Science and Art Department. In 1900 Mr. Pullinger was appointed Divisional Inspector and in 1908 Chief Inspector of the Technological Branch of the Board of Education, into which the Science and Art Department had been merged. He was a man of great force of character and possessed a very intimate knowledge of the needs of technical education. The years during which he was Chief Inspector witnessed a rapid growth in the responsibilities of the Board towards technical education, and Mr. Pullinger's wide experience and close association with technical problems were in consequence of very great value. In particular it may be said that he organised an inspectorate containing in its ranks men of expert knowledge in engineering, building, chemical, and other industries, and transformed the whole process of inspection. His death at a comparatively early age is greatly regretted by all who have the future of technical education at heart.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 605 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/106605a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106605a0