Encyclopedia Britannica lists place of birth as Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire. However the FreeBMD website lists his birth registration in the 2nd quarter of 1883 in the former district of St. George Hanover Square, Middlesex, now in the district of Westminster.37 In fact he was born in Westminster and spent later childhood in Snitterfield close to Stratford-Upon-Avon as was confirmed in his autobiographical sketch (excerpts below).
He’s listed in the 1901 Census at boarding Preparatory school, Christ’s Hospital in London on Newgate Street London E1 (EC1 now).38 The next year he went to Oxford.
Kathleen Givan met Sir Cyril Burt in 1955 in London, England in St. John's Wood.

From his autobiographical sketch:
“My parents were firm believers in heredity. Apart from the usual references to similarities in physical appearance, I was constantly told that I had tricks of gesture and behavior that were strikingly reminiscent of relatives I had never seen or who had gone abroad before I had met them. Racially, I was reminded, I was a mixture of Angle, Saxon, and Celt, and from the earliest years was warned to avoid the well-known defects of each, and to cultivate their redeeming qualities.
To commemorate the Saxon strain, my father gave me an out-of-the-way Christian name [Lodowic] which pursued me as a nickname through my earlier years [Loddie]; and my mother, in playful reference to some ill-founded claims of my paternal relatives, would dub me Ethel-bert the Unready.”39

From an Internet article on the website of the Dept. of Psychology, Muskingum, Ohio at http://fates.cns.muskingum.edu/~psych/psycweb/history/burt.htm:

“Sir Cyril Burt

(1883-1971)
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Biography

Cyril Burt was a very well known British psychologist and a leader in the development of methods of data analysis. His contributions also included studies in intelligence testing, juvenile delinquency, and the use of statistics in analyzing data from psychological experiments. His studies with factor analysis were a major contribution to the field of mathematical psychology.
Burt was born on March 3, 1883, in Stratford-on-Avon [actually born in Westminster]. He later graduated from Oxford with a degree in philosophy. Then he studied for a couple of years in Germany, but soon returned to Oxford, where he was the John Locke scholar in mental philosophy. Burt taught at Liverpool University and also at Cambridge, until he later joined the faculty at University College in London. In 1913, Burt was appointed to the London County Council where he was in charge of psychological research and applied psychology for the London school system. Here he developed new tests, a special school for the handicapped, and founded child guidance clinics. In 1931, he became a professor of psychology, a position he held until 1950. He was soon appointed the head of the department of psychology at University College. In 1942, he became president of the British Psychological Society, and the first British psychologist to be knighted in 1946.
At age sixty-eight, Burt retired from the position of head of the psychology department. He spent his time writing many articles and books. He published over 200 articles and reviews after his retirement. Many of his later articles were written under various pseudonyms. Twenty years later, at the age of eighty-eight, he died in London.
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Theory
One of Burt's most famous studies was that with identical twins. In the early 1950's, Burt published results from identical twin studies. He first started with 21 pairs of twins, then going to 42 pairs of twins reared apart. Correlation coefficients for the IQ's varied between identical twins reared apart and non-identical twins reared together. His results showed the IQ's of identical twins reared apart much closer than the IQ's of non-identical twins. He concluded that genetic factors were more important than environmental factors in determining intelligence.
Later in 1956, Burt reported on the IQ's of 53 pairs of identical twins that were reared apart. In his study with separately raised twins, Burt found a high correlation of .771 between their general intelligence. This correlation proved to match to the third decimal place to the earlier twin study.
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Cyril Burt, A Fraud?

Five years after Cyril Burt's death, he was accused of publishing a fraudulent series of separated twin studies. Scientists were convinced that Burt's data was false and that he invented crucial facts to support his theory that intelligence is inherited. Burt was found guilty of fraud, by the British Psychological Society.

Leslie Hearnshaw published a biography of Burt, Cyril Burt, Psychologist, in which he says some factors that may have had influence in Burt's fraudulent data, were mental illness, the number of assistants helping him, and childhood influences. But there is lack of evidence showing that any of these played a part in his fraudulent data. Many of Hearnshaw's conclusions were based on incomplete records, ambiguous writings, and the memories of his colleagues. Burt was accused of fabricating his results of his twin studies and his assistants.

When this was published by Hearnshaw, a highly respected historian of psychology, Burt was truly believed to be a fraud. Hearnshaw was given access to Burt's diaries and his careful research was strong evidence of the accusations against Burt. It seemed as though the case of Cyril Burt was finally closed with the conclusions by Hearnshaw. But psychologist Robert B. Joynson and sociologist Ronald Fletcher did not agree. Both of them came to the same conclusion, that the charges against Burt were not proven to be true. Joynson reviewed Burt's data, and found that some of Burt's samples were suspicious. He believes that the correlation of .771 reported for his two studies, may simply be "a genuine coincidence".
When Fletcher and Joynson reviewed the diaries of Burt they found no concrete evidence that Burt's data was fake. The defense presented by Fletcher and Joynson have two main points: 1) They show the previously unsuspected flimsiness, misrepresentation and even in some cases factual nonexistence, of the supposedly damning evidence; and 2) They closely examine the points that had aroused suspicion and provide alternative innocent explanations that seem at least plausible as the "guilty" explanations promoted by Burt's accusers (Jensen,1991). Although Burt has been accused of being a fraud, he had many contributions to the field of educational psychology. And recent studies with identical twins have substantiated Burt's theory that individual differences in intelligence are strongly conditioned by genetic factors.
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Time Line of Burt's Life
1883 Born in Stratford-on-Avon [actually born in Westminster]
1902 Arrived at Oxford University
1908 John Locke scholar in mental philosophy at Oxford. Assistant Lecturer in Physiology and Lecturer in Experimental Psychology at the University of Liverpool
1910 Started revisions of the Binet and Simon Test fro use in England.
1913 Appointed to the London County Council
1924 Joined the faculty of University College, London
1925 Published The Young Delinquent
1931 Became the professor of psychology at University College
1932 Accepted the Chair of Psychology at the University College of london
1935 Published The Subnormal Mind
1937 Published The Backward Child
1941 Published Factors of the Mind
1942 President of the British Psychological Society
1946 Knighted Sir Cyril Burt (The first psychologist to receive this honor)
1950 Published results from identical twins reared apart
1971 Received American Psychological Association's Thorndike Award
1971 Died on October 10 in London
1976 After his death, proclaimed a fraud
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Bibliography
Fancher, R. E. (1991) The Burt Case: Another Foray. Science, Vol. 253
Hothersall, D. (1995) History of Psychology. McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Jensen, A. R. (1991) IQ and science: the mysterious Burt affair. Public Interest Fall , 93-106.
Zenderland, L. (1990) Burt Again. Science, Vol. 248.

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From Encyclopaedia Britannica in the 1960’s:

Burt, Sir Cyril
b. March 3, 1883, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, Eng.
d. Oct. 10, 1971, London
in full SIR CYRIL LODOWIC BURT, British psychologist known for his development of factor analysis in psychological testing and for his studies of the effect of heredity on intelligence and behaviour.

Burt studied at the universities of Oxford and Würzburg before becoming the first educational psychologist appointed by a governmental body in Britain, in 1913, a position that led to the first child-guidance clinic in England. He joined the faculty of the University of London in 1924 and served as professor of psychology at University College, London, from 1931 until his retirement in 1950. He continued to do research after his retirement, and he was knighted in 1946 (the first psychologist to be so honoured).

In 1909 Burt published his experimental tests on general intelligence, in which he used factor analysis to define the kinds of factors at play in psychological testing (factor analysis involves the extraction of small numbers of independent factors from a large group of intercorrelated measurements). His method of factor analysis was fully presented in The Factors of the Mind (1940).

Burt's studies convinced him that intelligence was primarily hereditary in origin, although social and environmental factors could play a secondary role in intellectual development. From the 1940s on, he published studies showing that levels of intelligence could be correlated with occupational levels among large groups of test subjects and that such intelligence levels were transmitted to these subjects' offspring. His data seemed to demonstrate that occupational levels (and hence social class) are determined mainly by innate, hereditary levels of intelligence.

After Burt's death, striking anomalies in some of his test data led some scientists to reexamine his statistical methods. They concluded that Burt manipulated and probably falsified those IQ-test results that most convincingly supported his theories on transmitted intelligence and social class. The debate over his conduct continued, but all sides agreed that his later research was at least highly flawed, and many accepted that he fabricated some data. However, the soundness of his earlier work justified his reputation as the foremost pioneer of educational psychology in Britain.

Leon J. Kamin, The Science and Politics of I.Q. (1974), reviewed Burt's statistical methods and argued that his data was falsified or fabricated. L.S. Hearnshaw, Cyril Burt, Psychologist (1979), attacked Burt's methods, drawing on analysis of his statistics and on unpublished materials in his papers. Robert B. Joynson, The Burt Affair (1989); and Ronald Fletcher, Science, Ideology, and the Media: The Cyril Burt Scandal (1991), were written in response to Hearnshaw; both argued that while Burt was guilty of doing some sloppy science, charges of fraud could not be sustained. N.J. Mackintosh (ed.), Cyril Burt: Fraud or Framed? (1995), a collection of essays by psychologists or historians of psychology, reviewed the scientific evidence, Burt's statistical methods, his data, and the debate and concluded that Burt probably did knowingly fabricate data.

From Intelligence 30 (2002) 555–567:

New evidence on Sir Cyril Burt: His 1964 Speech to the Association of Educational Psychologists
Author: John Philippe Rushton*
Department of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada N6A 5C2
Received 24 February 2001; received in revised form 2 October 2001; accepted 22 January 2002

Abstract
After reviewing the debate that raged over Cyril Burt’s [Br. J. Psychol. 57 (1966) 137] finding of a correlation of .771 for IQ scores in 53 pairs of monozygotic twins raised apart, this paper provides the transcript of a previously unpublished speech by Burt given on May 2, 1964, at the age of 81, on the occasion of his appointment as Patron to the Association of Educational Psychologists (AEP). Burt’s speech is of special interest because it occurred just prior to the publication of a paper later alleged to be built on fraudulent data. Kamin [The Science and Politics of IQ (1974). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum] declared Burt’s correlation of .771 to be implausibly high and implausibly invariant from that reported in his 1943 work. Hearnshaw [Cyril Burt: Psychologist (1979). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press] concluded that Burt had made up his data, and the Sunday Times (1976) even alleged that Burt had conjured his research assistants up out of thin air. Then, independent books by Joynson [The Burt Affair (1989). London: Routledge] and by Fletcher [Science, Ideology and The Media: The Cyril Burt Scandal (1991). New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction] vindicated Burt (the ‘‘missing’’ research assistants were found and the twin data had not been ‘‘cooked’’). More recently, Mackintosh [Cyril Burt: Fraud or Framed? (1995). Oxford: Oxford University Press] reiterated Hearnshaw’s allegations of fraud, including the claim that Burt did not have access to new data after his retirement in 1950. However, as Fletcher pointed out, Burt was openly requesting educational psychologists to help him locate additional pairs of twins raised apart. Moreover, in the 1964 talk presented here, which allows Burt to speak for himself, Burt describes his wide access to the schools, teachers, and social workers of the London County Council from 1913 onwards and states how, half a century later, analyses were still going on. He describes the ‘‘potted history’’ of educational psychology in Britain, his 1913 appointment as psychologist for the London County Council, and some of his findings as Britain’s first educational psychologist. With the whole panoply of his intellectual life on display and no quotes taken out of context, Burt’s talk may incline some readers to take him at his word and to dismiss the accusations against him as ‘‘not proven.’’

D 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Behavioral genetics; Educational psychology; Intelligence tests; Scientific fraud; Twin studies
1. Introduction
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E-mail address: rushton@uwo.ca (J.P. Rushton).
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