Arthur Charles Frederick Beales (1905 - 16 August 1974) was an historian.
[1][2] He was educated at King's College London, where his mentors included F. J. C. Hearnshaw and Eileen Power.
[1] Beales spent all but four years of his career at King's; for three years he was a schoolmaster and he worked for University College, Swansea, for a year.
From 1964 until his retirement in 1972 he was Professor of History at King's.
[1] In 1935 he converted to Catholicism.