Frank Noel Hales


Frank Noel Hales was one of the ten founding members of the British Psychological Society in 1903.
Hales was born at Saumur in France in 1878. He attended the University of Cambridge and in 1900 he graduated with BA first class in the Moral Sciences Tripos. His examiners included James Ward, Carveth Read and G.F. Stout. He was awarded the Allen Scholarship in 1902.
At the second scientific meeting of the British Psychological Society, held on 3 May 1902, he contributed a paper entitled ‘A contribution to the analysis of the process of comparison’. James Ward and W.H.R. Rivers were the other two speakers.
At the meeting of the Society on 6 December 1902, he presented a paper entitled ‘The fluctuation of the dream image’.
He published in the first volume of the British Journal of Psychology, 205-39, ‘Materials for the psycho-genetic theory of comparison’.
In 1907 he emigrated to Canada where he initially lived in Montreal. He attempted to find work as a psychologist but then moved to British Columbia where he became a successful fruit farmer.