John Newsom (1910-1971; ODNB), public servant and educationist; Queen's Coll., Oxford; General Secretary, Community Service Council, Co. Durham; county organiser of the National Council of Social Service as well as other appointments in London and the Midlands, 1931-8; deputy county education officer, Hertfordshire, 1938, and director, 1940-57; author of the Newsom report, 1963, Half our future, on children of average and below average ability; kt 1964; see Volume 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71.

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