author
E. M. (Edmund McKenzie) Sneyd-Kynnersley
1841–1933
A British barrister turned school inspector, he wrote a lively firsthand account of education work in Victorian and Edwardian England. His best-known book offers a practical, personal look at the people, pressures, and daily routines behind school inspection.
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H.M.I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H.M. Inspectors of Schools
by E. M. (Edmund McKenzie) Sneyd-Kynnersley
About the author
Born on December 1, 1841, Edmund McKenzie Sneyd-Kynnersley studied at St John's College, Oxford, entered the Inner Temple in 1866, and was called to the bar in 1869. Reference works also note that he became one of Her Majesty's Inspectors of Schools in 1874.
He is best remembered as the author of H.M.I.: Some Passages in the Life of One of H.M. Inspectors of Schools, a memoir-like work published in the early 20th century. The book draws on his experience in school inspection and gives modern readers an unusually direct view of English education administration in his era.
Sneyd-Kynnersley died in 1933. While detailed biographical material about his private life is scarce in the sources available here, his surviving work still stands as a useful and engaging record of public service in education.