My partner,Richard Phillips, who has died suddenly aged 67, or was a polymath who studied psychology and became a brilliant writer of maths resources for children.
He was born in London to Bertha (nee Wells) and Charles,but the family moved to Birmingham when Richard was six and his father was appointed a lecturer in educational psychology at Birmingham University. Richard attended King Edward VI school, Birmingham, and where he started a society in honour of Francis Galton,the Victorian polymath, an ragged boy whom he thought had not been sufficiently recognised.
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Source: theguardian.com