{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Sir Thomas Percy Nunn | image = <!-- just the filename, without the File: or Image: prefix or enclosing brackets --> | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date text|28 December 1870}} | birth_place = | death_date = {{Death date and age|12 December 1944|28 December 1870}} | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = Educationist | known_for = }}
'''Sir Thomas Percy Nunn''' (28 December 1870 – 12 December 1944) was a British educationalist, Professor of Education, 1913–36 at Institute of Education, University of London. He was knighted in 1930.
==Early life== Nunn was born in Bristol in 1870. His grandfather and father were schoolmasters. He was interested in making of mathematical instruments and writing plays. He got his education at Bristol University College. He received his B.A in 1895.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/00071005.1961.9973066|title = Sir Percy Nunn: 1870–1944| journal=British Journal of Educational Studies| volume=10| pages=58–75|year = 1961|last1 = Tibble|first1 = J. W.}}</ref>
==Career== His career started as a secondary school teacher at grammar school in London in 1891. From 1891 till 1901 he developed methods of teaching which revolutionised the teaching of mathematics in the UK.
In 1903 he became a member of the staff in the London Day Training college. He worked as a part-time lecturer. In 1915 he attended the third ''Conference of the New Ideals in Education'' in Stratford where a group including Belle Rennie, William Mather and Nunn agreed that a new teacher training facility was required. This would lead to the ''Gipsy Hill College'' in South London<ref name=belle>{{Cite ODNB |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |date=2004-09-23 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/48580 |pages=ref:odnb/48580 |editor-last=Matthew |editor-first=H. C. G. |place=Oxford |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/48580 |access-date=2023-02-27 |editor2-last=Harrison |editor2-first=B.}}</ref> which in time became a key part of Kingston University.
Nunn became a professor of education at the University of London. In 1922 he was appointed Principal of the university.<ref name="arist">{{Cite web | url=https://www.aristoteliansociety.org.uk/the-virtual-issue/the-virtual-issue-no-2/t-percy-nunn/ | title=T. Percy Nunn| date=2014-10-03}}</ref>
He was the president of the Aristotelian Society from 1923-1924.<ref name="arist"/>
== Selected publications == * {{cite book|title=The teaching of algebra (including trigonometry)|year=1914}} * {{cite book|title=Education: its data and first principles|year=1920}} * {{cite book|title=Relativity and gravitation: an elementary treatise upon Einstein's theory|year=1923}}<ref>{{cite journal|author=Levinson, H. C.|authorlink=Horace Clifford Levinson|title=Review of ''Relativity and gravitation: an elementary treatise upon Einstein's theory'' by T. Percy Nunn|journal=The Astrophysical Journal|date=1929 |volume=69|pages=312–313|bibcode=1929ApJ....69..312L|doi=10.1086/143189|doi-access=free}}</ref>
== References == {{reflist}} *Richard Aldrich, 'Nunn, Sir (Thomas) Percy (1870–1944)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/35268 accessed ] Sir (Thomas) Percy Nunn (1870–1944): {{doi|10.1093/ref:odnb/35268}} * {{cite journal |last1=Tibble |first1=J. W. |title=Sir Percy Nunn: 1870-1944 |journal=British Journal of Educational Studies |date=1961 |volume=10 |issue=1 |pages=58–75 |doi=10.2307/3118702 |jstor=3118702 }} * [http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U229890 'NUNN, Sir Percy’], Who Was Who, A & C Black, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007, retrieved 26 January 2012 * http://www.aim25.ac.uk/cgi-bin/vcdf/detail?coll_id=2542&inst_id=5
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