Percy Barnett

Percy Arthur Barnett (1858 – 26 October 1941) was a British educationalist and author, Superintendent of Education for the Colony of Natal, and Chief Inspector of Training of Teachers in England.

Early life and education Barnett was born in Plymouth, the son of a Jewish research chemist, but was orphaned and grew up in the Jews' Hospital and Orphan Asylum, Norwood. He became a student at the City of London School and at Trinity College, Oxford. He won a scholarship to Oxford in 1877, and finished in 1881 with a first in literature humanities. He became an inspector of schools in 1893. He became Chief Inspector of Training on his return to England in 1905, and continued in that post until 1912. Common Sense in Education and Teaching: An Introduction to Practice (Longmans, Green, and co., 1899; 5th ed., 1906) Common Sense Grammar (1923) His wife, Annie Barnett (née Beeching; 1862–1941), was active in the suffrage movement; her father sold books and her brother was Henry Charles Beeching, a writer and the Dean of Norwich.

He died on 26 October 1941.