Edgar John Sainsbury OBE (1863-29 January 1949) was a school teacher and leading member of the London County Council.
Born in Freemantle, Hampshire in 1863, the son of Edmund and Eliza Sainsbury, by 1881 he was working as a National School teacher in nearby Millbrook.[1][2]
He moved to London, where he became headmaster of the Chelsea Central (Mixed) School, and President of the Association of Teachers of Central Schools.[3] In 1920 he was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his services to education during the First World War.[4] He became a member of the executive of the National Union of Teachers, and served as the union's president in 1923.[3] in that capacity he gave evidence to the Consultative Committee on the Differentiation of the Curriculum for Boys and Girls Respectively in Secondary Schools.[5] Politically a Conservative and Unionist, In March 1927 he was elected chairman of the newly-formed London Conservative Teachers Association. One of the association's aims were to "counteract, as far as possible, the effects of Socialism in the ranks of teachers".[6]
He retired from teaching in 1928, entering local politics when he was elected to the London County Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor representing Battersea South.[3][7] Re-elected in 1931, he lost his seat in 1934 when the Labour Party won control of the council.[8][9] He returned to the council in 1937 as an alderman, a position he held until his death.[10][11]
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- ↑ Register of Births, South Stoneham Registration District, Mar 1863, vol 2c, p.57
- ↑ Census of England and Wales 1881, RG11, piece /folio 1223/40, page 18
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Journal of Education, Volume 81, Oxford University Press, 1949
- ↑ Supplement to the London Gazette, Issue 38140, page 3803, 26 March 1920
- ↑ The Hadow Report (1923) Differentiation of the Curriculum for Boys and Girls Respectively in Secondary Schools
- ↑ London Unionist Teachers' Association, The Times, 30 March 1927, p. 12
- ↑ L.C.C. Election. Full Results of Polling, The Times, 10 March 1928, p.17
- ↑ L.C.C. Election, The Times, 7 March 1931, p.8
- ↑ L.C.C. Election, The Times, 10 March 1934, p.8
- ↑ The New L.C.C., The Times, 9 March 1937, p.13
- ↑ Achievement. A Short History of the London County Council, W Eric Jackson, Longmans, 1965, p.279