ABSTRACT
John Philippe Rushton (JPR) was born in Bournemouth, on December 3rd, 1943. His family roots were Lancastrian. Rushton stated that one of his ancestors, Samuel Crompton, invented the spinning mule which revolutionised the yarn industry from hand-spinning to large-scale mechanisation. JPR claims this was due to his father’s struggling business, although Rushton’s third wife Elizabeth Weiss claims it was really because JPRs father had an affair and his mother wanted to return home. JPR recalls how the works of Hans Eysenck were significantly influential to the teenage Rushton, particularly his personality questionnaires mapping political affiliation to personality. JPR returned the support that Hammerton had shown him, supporting her and her son emotionally. She said that JPR made her son feel ‘he was something, against his father’s disdain’. JPR’s data suggested that Sub-Saharan Africans had a fast r-K strategy which was designed to be functional in unstable environments.
