James Sully
James Sully (3 March 1842 – 1 November 1923) was an English psychologist. Biography. James Sully was born at Bridgwater, Somerset, the son of J. W. Sully, a liberal Baptist merchant and ship-owner. He was educated at the Independent College in Taunton, Regent's Park College, at the University of Göttingen, where he studied under Lotze, and at Humboldt University, Berlin, where he studied under Emil du Bois-Reymond and Hermann von Helmholtz. Sully was originally destined for the nonconformist ministry and in 1869 became classical tutor at the Baptist College, Pontypool. In 1871, however, he adopted a  literary and philosophic career. Between 1892 and 1903, he was Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College London, where he was succeeded by Carveth Read. An adherent of the associationist school of psychology, his views had great affinity with those of Alexander Bain. Sully wrote monographs on subjects such as pessimism, and psychology textbooks, some of the first in English, including "The Human Mind "(1892). His 1881 "Illusions" was commended by both Freud and Wundt. Sully opened an experimental psychology laboratory at University College London in January 1898. In 1901 he was one of the  founder members of the British Psychological Society and in fact personally called the meeting at which the Society was formed. Sully died in Richmond, Surrey on 1 November 1923. References. Attribution