James Millar (educationalist)
This article needs additional citations for verification. (January 2024) |
James Millar (J. P. M. Millar) (1893–1989) was a Scottish working-class educationalist of the twentieth century.[1]
Early life
Millar, the son of an accountant, James Primrose Malcolm Millar, was born in Edinburgh on 17 April 1893. He attended Musselburgh Grammar School leaving at sixteen to take up an apprenticeship with an insurance company. His father was chief accountant to the Edinburgh City Chamberlain. His conservative political outlook was originally inherited by James.
In 1923 he succeeded George Sims as General Secretary of the National Council of Labour Colleges. In this capacity he organised the loose network of labour colleges throughout Great Britain into eleven regional divisions, which each had a divisional organiser. As funds from trade unions were paid to the National Council, this meant that regional autonomy was eroded: although each division elected its own Council and executive committee, the divisional organiser was appointed nationally.[2]
References
- ^ Labour History Review. Vol. 55–57. The Society for the Study of Labour History. 1990. p. 4.
- ^ Macintyre, Stuart (1980). A Proletarian Science: Marxism in Britain, 1917-1933. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- CS1: long volume value
- Articles with short description
- Short description matches Wikidata
- Articles needing additional references from January 2024
- All articles needing additional references
- Use dmy dates from February 2018
- Use British English from February 2018
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1893 births
- 1989 deaths
- 20th-century Scottish educators
- Trade unionists from Edinburgh
- People educated at Musselburgh Grammar School