Editing Cyril Burt (section)

==Later career==
In 1931 Burt resigned his position at the LCC and the LDTC after he was appointed professor and Chair of Psychology at [[University College London]], taking over the position from Charles Spearman, thus ending his almost 20-year career as a school psychological practitioner. One of his students, Reuben Conrad, recalled that he once arrived at the university with a chimpanzee that he had borrowed from London Zoo, though Conrad could not recall what point Burt was trying to make.<ref>D. Bishop, July 2016 The Psychologist Vol.29 (pp.578–579) https://thepsychologist.bps.org.uk/volume-29/july/quality-and-longevity</ref> While at London, Burt influenced many students, including [[Raymond Cattell]] and [[Hans Eysenck]], and toward the end of his life, [[Arthur Jensen]] and [[Chris Brand]]. Burt was a consultant with the committees that developed the [[Eleven-plus exam|11-plus]] examinations. This issue, and the allegations of fraudulent scholarship against him, are discussed in various books and articles listed [[#Readings on the Burt Affair|below]], including ''Cyril Burt: Fraud or Framed'' and ''[[The Mismeasure of Man]]''.

Despite his lasting reputation as a statistical psychologist Cyril Burt was also involved in psychoanalysis. He was a member of the [[Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust|Tavistock Clinic]] Council in the early 1930s<ref>Henry Dicks, ''50 years of the Tavistock Clinic''. Routledge 1970, p. 47.</ref> and of the [[British Psychoanalytical Society]].<ref>Malcolm Pines, "The Development of the Psychodynamic Movement", in: ''150 Years of British Psychiatry, 1841–1991''.</ref> In ''The Young Delinquent'',<ref>C. Burt, ''The Young Delinquent'', London: University of London Press, 1925.</ref> he expressed the view that "nearly every tragedy of crime is in its origin a drama of domestic life."<ref>Quoted by Adrian Wooldridge, ''Measuring the Mind: Education and Psychology in England, c. 1860 – c. 1990''. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994, p. 99.</ref>

In 1942 Burt was elected president of the [[British Psychological Society]]. In 1946 he became the first British psychologist to be [[Knight Bachelor|knighted]] for his contributions to psychological testing and for making educational opportunities more widely available, according to an account by [[J. Philippe Rushton]].<ref name="Rushton 1994">{{cite journal|url=http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/rushton-burt?embedded=yes&cumulative_category_title=J.+Phillipe+Rushton&cumulative_category_id=Rushton |title=Victim of Scientific Hoax (Cyril Burt and the Genetic IQ Controversy)|doi=10.1007/BF02693229|via=Upstream|access-date=2 October 2005 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041013222543/http://www.mugu.com/cgi-bin/Upstream/rushton-burt?embedded=yes&cumulative_category_title=J.+Phillipe+Rushton&cumulative_category_id=Rushton |archive-date=13 October 2004 |author=J. Philippe Rushton|journal=Society|date=March–April 1994|volume=31|issue=3|pages=40–44|s2cid=144482788}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=September 2018}} Burt was a member of the [[London School of Differential Psychology]], and of the [[British Eugenics Society]]. Because he had suggested on radio in 1946 the formation of an organization for people with high [[IQ]] scores, he was made honorary president of [[Mensa International|Mensa]] in 1960. He officially joined Mensa soon thereafter.<ref>{{cite book |title=Mensa – The Society for the Highly Intelligent |page=65 |author=Victor Serebriakoff |publisher=Stein and Day |year=1986 |isbn=978-0-8128-3091-0}}</ref>

Burt retired in 1951 at the age of 68, but continued writing articles and books. He died of cancer at age 88 in London on 10 October 1971.