Alexander Carr-Saunders

Sir Alexander Carr-Saunders KBE FBA
Carr-Saunders in c.1960

5th Director of the London School of Economics and Political Science
In office 1937–1957
Preceded by	Sir William Beveridge
Succeeded by	Sir Sydney Caine

Personal details
Born	Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders (1886-01-14)14 January 1886 Reigate, Surrey, England
Died	6 October 1966(1966-10-06) (aged 80)
Spouse	Teresa Molyneux-Seel
Relations	Catherine Maxwell Stuart, 21st Lady of Traquair (granddaughter)
Children	1
Education	Eton College
Alma mater	Magdalen College, Oxford
Awards	Knight Bachelor (1946) FBA (1946) KBE (1957)
Military service
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Branch/service	British Army
Years of service	1914–1918
Rank	Captain
Unit	Royal Army Service Corps
Battles/wars	World War I

Eugenics
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Pre-war academic proponents Bell Brigham Burbank Carrell Davenport Darwin (Charles) Darwin (Leonhard) DeCourcy Ward von Ehrenfels Elderton Evang Fisher Galton Gates Goldscheid Grant Gruber Günther Guyer Haldane Herseni Holmes Hrdlička Jennings Jordan Kang Key Kraepelin Lenz Lewis London Magnussen Manuilă Mittmann Moreira Munro Nordau Osborn Pan Pearson (Karl) Perkins Pérez Ploetz Quetelet Rainer Relgis Ross Schallmayer Scharffenberg Serebrovsky Sergi Slater Southard Stoddard Taussig Terman Tesla Thorndike Vacher de Lapouge Verschuer Yerkes
Post-war academic remnants Agar Bell (Julia) Blacker Carl Carter Cattell Coleman Darlington Fleischman Garrett Glad Hardin Haldane Hanania Herndon Huxley Ingle Itzkoff José Figueredo Kallmann Kirkconnell Koch Laski Lederberg Lorenz Ludovici Lundman Lynn MacEachran Magnussen Miller Muller Murray Nijenhuis Nyborg Osborn Pearson (Roger) Pendell Pitt-Rivers Popenoe Rostand Savulescu Shapiro Shockley Verschuer Vining Jr. Weiss
Pamphlets and manifestos Hereditary Genius (1869) Degeneration (1892–1893) Gallia (1895) "The Blood of the Nation" (1901/1910) Anticipations (1901) The Training of the Human Plant (1907) Essays in Eugenics (1909) Heredity in Relation to Eugenics (1911) Mankind at the Crossroads (1923) Daedalus (1924) La raza cósmica (1925) Marriage and Morals (1929) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (1930) "Charter for Rationalists" (1932) Man, the Unknown (1935) After Us (1936) "Eugenics manifesto" (1939) New Bottles for New Wine (1950) The Marching Morons (1951) The Dance with the Devil (1958) Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins (1973) Beyondism (1987) Dysgenics (1996) Eugenics: A Reassessment (2001) Jewish Eugenics (2011) Selective Breeding and the Birth of Philosophy (2023)
Organizations Without significant post-war activity ABCL Alberta Eugenics Board AASPIM AES Carnegie Institution for Science Carrel Foundation CSHL Co-operative Women's Guild EBNC ERO Fabian Society Galton Laboratory German Society for Racial Hygiene Heredity Commission HBF Human Betterment League Immigration Restriction League INED IAAEE International Eugenics Conference IFEO Kaiser Wilhelm Institute Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry PAA Progressive League Race Betterment Foundation RHA Rockefeller Foundation State Institute for Racial Biology With significant post-war activity Annals of Eugenics (1954) CIS The Eugenics Review (1968) FREED HDF J. Soc. Political Econ. Stud. LCI Mankind Quarterly OpenPsych Project Prevention Repository for Germinal Choice Ulster Institute for Social Research
Related Demographic engineering Dysgenics Fujimorism Genetic discrimination History of eugenics Idiocracy Pedigree chart Political views of Bertrand Russell Political views of H. G. Wells Raymond Cattell bibliography Ronald Fisher bibliography Selective breeding
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Sir Alexander Morris Carr-Saunders, KBE, FBA (14 January 1886 – 6 October 1966) was an English biologist, sociologist, academic, and academic administrator. He was Director of the London School of Economics from 1937 to 1957.