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Joseph Millott Severn

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Occupation
  
Phrenologist

Name
  
Joseph Severn

Subject
  
Phrenology, History


Period
  
1912-

Nationality
  
English

Role
  
Writer

Joseph Millott Severn

Died
  
1942, Brighton, United Kingdom

Books
  
Phrenology Up to Date, Popular Phrenology

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

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Biography

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.

Major works (incomplete)

  • 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)

    • References

    Joseph Millott Severn Wikipedia
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