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Charles Samuel MyersBeech Holt, Great Shelford
History of Beech Holt, Great Shelford
[The exact location and identity of Beech Holt is unclear at the time of writing this entry]
Charles Myers was one of the most influential figures in the development t of the science of psychology. As stated in Wikipedia:
In 1915 Myers was given a commission in the Royal Army Medical Corps and in 1916 he was appointed consultant psychologist to the British armies in France with a staff of assistants at Le Touquet. In 1915 Myers was the first to use the term “shell shock” in an article in The Lancet, though he later acknowledged in 1940 that he did not invent the term. He tried to save shell-shocked soldiers from execution.
1911 Beech Holt
Charles Samuel Myers, 38, university lecturer, b London
Edith, 35, b London
Dorothy Lina, 5, b London
Edmund Charles Wolf, 4, b London
John Walter Rivers, 1, b Stapleford
Margaret Morton, sick nurse, 36, b Surrey
Susan Bell, cook, 44, b Cambs
Hilda Sheldrick, parlourmaid, 30, b Triplow
Alice Lovick, housemaid, 30, b Norfolk
Ada Bunkhall, 25, laundry maid, b London
Lydia Griggs, 16, scullery maid, b London
Laura Griggs, nurse, 43, b Essex
Bella Brace, nurse, 22, b Sutherland
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