Francis Arthur Powell Aveling MC ComC (25 December 1875 – 6 March 1941) was a Canadian

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and

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priest. He married Ethel Dancy of Steyning, Sussex in 1925.

Life

Francis Aveling was born at

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, Ontario 25 December 1875. He went to Bishop Ridley College in

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and

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before studying at

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at the

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, England. Aveling was received into the Roman Catholic Church by Father Luke Rivington in 1896 and entered the Pontificio Collegio Canadese in Rome. There he earned his

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degree. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1899, and served as a curate in

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, before becoming first rector of

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. He was also a chaplain at the

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, and to St. Wilfrid's Convent, Chelsea. In 1910, Aveling obtained a

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degree at the age of 35 from the

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(his advisor was

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), and in 1912 he was recipient of a

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degree from the

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, and received the

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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

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degree from the

Career

Aveling taught at

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from 1912 as a Lecturer (Assistant Professor), under the leadership of

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, until the

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. During that war he served in France as a

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in the

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, after which he returned to the

. In 1922, he transferred to

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where he was promoted to

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(associate professor), and later to professor of psychology. He was an extern examiner in philosophy at the National University of Ireland; and a lecturer in pedagogical methods for the London County Council. Aveling authored several books. He was the doctoral advisor of

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From 1926 until 1929, Aveling was also a president of the

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. Aveling was a member of the Council of the International Congresses, of the

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, 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. He was a contributor to the ''Dublin Review'', '' The American Catholic Quarterly Review'', ''

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'', ''The nineteenth Century'', ''

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'', and the ''Catholic Encyclopedia''."Aveling, Reverend Francis Arthur Powell", ''The Catholic Encyclopedia and Its Makers'', New York, the Encyclopedia Press, 1917, p. 6
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