Frank Noel Hales was born in
Saumur, France in 1878. He attended the University of Cambridge, where he earnt a first class in the
Moral Sciences Tripos in 1899. He graduated in 1900. His examiners were
James Ward,
G.F. Stout, and
Carveth Read. In 1902, he received the Allen Scholarship and presented the papers
A contribution to the analysis of the process of comparison and
The fluctuation of the dream image to early meetings of the
British Psychological Society. In 1903, the
British Psychological Society was formally established. Hales was one of the ten founding members. Hales published a paper entitled
Materials for the psycho-genetic theory of comparison in the first volume of the
British Journal of Psychology(1904–5). He moved to
Montreal in 1907, where he worked as a psychologist. He later became a fruit farmer in
British Columbia. He died on 14 October 1952. ==References==