Agent TypePersonActivities & OccupationsAcademics - PhilosophyHistoryGeorge Mayo was born on 26 December 1880 in Adelaide and was educated at Queen's and the Collegiate School of St. Peter and the University of Adelaide where he embarked on a medical degree. Although Mayo attended the medical schools in Edinburgh and London, he lost interest in medicine and in 1903 he travelled to Africa. After briefly writing articles for magazines and teaching English in London, Mayo returned to Adelaide in 1905 and worked for a printing company. In 1907 he went back to the University of Adelaide to study philosophy and psychology. Mayo won a series of prizes and graduated BA in 1910 and MA in 1926. In 1911, he was appointed foundation lecturer in mental and moral philosophy at the new University of Queensland and in 1919 to 1923 he held the first chair of philosophy. A prolific writer and public figure, Mayo left Brisbane for America in 1922 and he became a controversial social scientist at Harvard. He retired for Harvard and went to England where he died in 1949.
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