C. Lloyd Morgan

Conwy Lloyd Morgan was a British ethologist and psychologist, born in London in 1852 and died in Hastings in 1936. He studied at the Royal School of Mines and under T. H. Huxley, taught in Cape Town and from 1884 worked at University College, Bristol, first as professor of geology and zoology and from 1901 as its first professor of psychology and education. He became its principal in 1891 and the first vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol in 1909. He is remembered for Morgan's Canon, the principle that an action should not be explained by a higher mental faculty if a lower one can account for it, which played a major part in the growth of behaviorism, and for his theory of emergent evolution. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1899.