Kenneth Ronald Lambert Hall was born in 1917, and was a noted biologist, zoologist and psychologist, particularly in the field of animal psychology. During World War II, he served in the Middle East and Germany from 1940 - 1945 as a Captain in the Royal Artillery. He was a lecturer in and Professor of Psychology at the University of Bristol from 1959, and head of the Department of Experimental and Clinical Psychology at Bristol Mental Hospital between 1949 and 1954. Dr. Hall was also Professor of Psychology at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, from 1955 to 1959, and was a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, California, from 1962 to 1963. He married Pauline Sophie Assinder in 1941, and had no children. He died in 1965 after contracting a fatal disease from a monkey bite.
From the guide to the Kenneth Ronald Lambert Hall Papers, 1958 - 1967, (University of Bristol Information Services - Special Collections)
