1. Francis Arthur Powell Aveling MC ComC was a Canadian psychologist and Catholic priest.
13 Facts About Francis Aveling
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Francis Aveling married Ethel Dancy of Steyning, Sussex in 1925.
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Francis Aveling was born at St Catharines, Ontario 25 December 1875.
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Francis Aveling went to Bishop Ridley College in Ontario and McGill University before studying at Keble College at the University of Oxford, England.
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Francis Aveling was ordained to the priesthood in 1899, and served as a curate in Tottenham, before becoming first rector of Westminster Cathedral Choir School.
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Francis Aveling was a chaplain at the Cathedral, and to St Wilfrid's Convent, Chelsea.
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In 1910, Francis Aveling obtained a doctor of philosophy degree at the age of 35 from the University of Louvain, 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.
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Subsequently, Francis Aveling received his doctor of letters degree from the University of London.
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Francis Aveling taught at University College, London from 1912 as a Lecturer, under the leadership of Charles Spearman, until the First World War.
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Francis Aveling was an extern examiner in philosophy at the National University of Ireland; and a lecturer in pedagogical methods for the London County Council.
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Francis Aveling was the doctoral advisor of Raymond Cattell From 1926 until 1929, Aveling was a president of the British Psychological Society.
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Francis 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.
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Francis Aveling was a contributor to the Dublin Review, The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Catholic World, The nineteenth Century, The Journal of Psychology, and the Catholic Encyclopedia.