Microfilms include: A. Letters from Leslie and Gwenneth Hearnshaw in New Zealand to parents, Professor and Mrs F.J. Hearnshaw (9 files, 1939-1947). Mostly from Wellington. B. An Englishman in War-time New Zealand. Account by Leslie Hearnshaw of residence in New Zealand, 1938-1947 and subsequent visits on 1964, 1969, 1976, 1979, 1986 (138 p.). C. Diaries. Kept on holiday to Mt Egmont, 30 Jan. -11 Feb. 1940. Includes photographs. 1. Gwenneth Hearnshaw (89 p.). 2. Leslie Hearnshaw (51 p.).
Leslie Hearnshaw (1907-1991) was the son of Professor F.J.C. Hearnshaw, Professor of History, King's College, London University. He was educated at King's College School, Christ Church Oxford and King's College London. He graduated with first class honours in Psychology from London in 1932, and from 1933-1938 was an investigator for the National Institute of Industrial Psychology. In 1937 he married Dr Gwenneth Dickens (d. 1993) of Perth, Western Australia. From 1937 to 1947 he was lecturer in Psychology at Victoria University College, Wellington and from 1942 Director of the industrial Psychology Division of DSIR at Wellington. In 1947 he returned to England and was Professor of Psychology at Liverpool University until retirement in 1975. He was the author of "Cyril Burt: Psychologist" (Hodder and Stoughton, 1979).
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