Loram, C. T. (Charles Templeman), 1879-1940

Charles Templeman Loram was a teacher in South Africa and held various positions in education in the South African government from 1906 to 1931. He was a professor of education at Yale from 1931 to 1940.

Charles Templeman Loram was a teacher in South Africa and held various positions in education in the South African government from 1906 to 1931. He was a professor of education at Yale from 1931 to 1940.

Born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, Loram was educated at the University of the Cape of Good Hope (B.A. 1900), and the University of Cambridge (B.A. and LL.B. 1905, M.A. 1908), and Columbia University (Ph.D. 1917). In Africa, Loram held a number of government positions in education. Beginning as a teacher at Pietermaritzburg College, he was inspector of schools in Natal (1906-1917), Chief Inspector of Native Education (1917-1920), a member of the Union of South Africa Native Affairs Commission (1920-1929), Chief Inspector of Education, Natal (1929-1930), and Superintendent of Education (1930-1931).

In 1931, Charles Loram was appointed Sterling Professor of Education at Yale University, holding the position until his death in 1940. He also served as chairman and director of studies in the department of culture contacts and race relations in the Yale Graduate School from 1933. Other positions and honors held by Loram include: member of the Phelps-Stokes commission to Africa, 1922, to East Africa, 1925; trustee of Yale-in-China, recipient of honorary M.A. Yale University, 1931, recipient of honorary ED.D. University of Colorado, 1937; and participant in many seminars and conferences on the American Indian, Negroes, Africans, and Pacific Islanders. He was the author of The Education of the South African Native, 1919.