John Madge was an English sociologist and brother of Charles Madge. His book The Tools of Social Science (1953) is a clearly presented and quite readable handbook on research methodology in Sociology and related social sciences. He also wrote The Origins of Scientific Sociology (1959), and a number of books on Urban Sociology. Born in 1914, Madge was the son of Lieut Col. C. A. Madge and Barbara, née Hylton Foster, and like his father was educated at Winchester College and the University of Cambridge.