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Joseph Millott Severn

British phrenologist

Joseph Millott Severn

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British phrenologist

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Codnor, United Kingdom

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Brighton, United Kingdom

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82 years

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Joseph Millot Severn was an English writer, historian, and phrenologist born in Codnor, Derbyshire.

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Severn was born in 1860 and worked as a phrenologist in Brighton. He was President of the British Phrenological Association. This association started in the 1880s and was disbanded in 1967. "Professor" Severn wrote a number of books and funded some almhouses in his home village of Codnor.

Severn died at his home in Brighton in 1942.

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My village: Owd Codnor, Derbyshire, and the village folk when I was a boy (1935)
Phrenology: Up to date (1912)
Popular phrenology (1913)
Phrenological and physiological chart (1905) [Brighton Phrenological Institution]
Joseph Severn: Letters And Memoirs (Nineteenth Century Series) - by Joseph Severn, Grant F. Scott, Ashgate Publishing (2005)

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http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/library/reservesevern.html

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