Occupation psychologist Spouse(s) Ethel Dancy | Name Francis Aveling Died 1941 | |
Born 25 December 1875 ( 1875-12-25 ) St. Catharines, Canada Books On the Consciousness of the Uni, The God of Philosophy, Directing Mental Energy, Personality and Will | ||
Francis Arthur Powell Aveling DD D.Sc PhD DLit MC ComC (25 December 1875 – 6 March 1941) was a Canadian psychologist and Roman Catholic priest. He married Ethel Dancy of Steyning, Sussex in 1925.
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Education
Aveling went to Bishop Ridley College in Ontario, before studying at McGill University in Quebec, Keble College at Oxford University, England, and the Canadian College Rome (Pontificio Collegio Canadese). There he earned his doctor of divinity degree. In 1910, Aveling obtained a doctor of philosophy degree at the age of 35 years from the University of Louvain (his advisor was Michotte), and in 1912 he was recipient of a doctor of science degree from the University of London, and received the Carpenter Medal following his work On the Consciousness of the Universal and the Individual: A Contribution to the Phenomenology of the Thought Process. Subsequently, Aveling received his doctor of letters degree from the University of London.
Career
Aveling taught at University College, London from 1912 as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor), under the leadership of Charles Spearman, until the First World War. During that war he served in France as a chaplain in the British Army, after which he returned to the University of London. In 1922, he transferred to King's College, London where he was promoted to reader (associate professor), and later to professor of psychology. Aveling authored several books. He was the doctoral advisor of Raymond Cattell From 1926 until 1929, Aveling was also a president of the British Psychological Society. Aveling was a member of the Council of the International Congresses, of the Aristotelian Society, of the council and advisory board of the National Institute of Industrial Psychology, of the council of the British Institute of Philosophical Studies and of the Child Guidance Council.