Serebriakoff, Victor

▪ 2001

      British administrator (b. Oct. 17, 1912, London, Eng.—d. Jan. 1, 2000, Blackheath, near London), was the leader under whom (from 1954) Mensa, an organization founded in 1946 for people with high IQs, grew from a tiny group of four people into a society with more than 100,000 members worldwide. Serebriakoff, a timber and sawmill executive who supervised the introduction of metrics to the British timber industry, also wrote a history of Mensa and several books on intelligence and intelligence testing, as well as timber-related books under the pen name Victor Serry.

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