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GOYDER, David George (1796-1878)

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Born: 1796

Died: 1878

Editorial Description

practical phrenologist of Glasgow; educationalist, sometime apothecary and Swedenborgian preacher; Church background; apprenticed to a brush maker, 1810, and to a printer, 1814, before becoming schoolmaster to a Swedenborgian society in Bristol in the early 1820s; brother of Thomas Goyder Swedenborgian minister; became inspector of Pestaloz zian schools and travelled widely; settled briefly in Hull and Newcastle before moving to Glasgow where he became the resident prac tical phrenologist; published on Swedenborgianism; attracted to phre nology, 1822, after CROOK'S lectures in Bristol, but did not begin lecturing on phrenology until 1839; travelled extensively in England and Scotland and lectured in every village within a 40-mile radius of Glasgow; ed PHREN ALMANAC; M GLASGOW PHREN SOC; M PHREN ASSN from Sept 1840; operated a private phrenology museum in Glasgow; unsuccessful applicant in 1845 for the lectureship in phrenology at the Andersonian University (losing to WEIR); died in Bradford. (MEB; and Autobio, 1857, cited below.)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

• 465.1 — 465.1 Acquisitiveness: its uses and abuses. Glasgow: printed, 1837. Pp. 144. (Reviewed PHREN J, 10 [1837]: 626-7; intended to show the accordance of phrenology with Christianity.) [Advocates Lib, Edin]
• 465.2 — 465.2 The People's Edition of the Phrenological Chart [1' x 2: 1d plain; 3d colored]. Glasgow: John M'Leod; Edin: Maclachlen & Stewart, 1840. [John Johnson Coll, Bodleian Lib, Oxford]
• 465.3 — 465.3 "On Education in connection with Phrenology--to Phrenological Association [meeting], Glasgow," PHREN J, 14 (1841): 50-5.
• 465.4 — 465.4 MS. Heads of the People 1843: Measurements and Manipulations of Heads. 365 delineations conducted between Jan. 10 and Dec. 26, 1843. [Edin UL: Gen. 603* (v)]
• 465.5 — 465.5 *"Phrenological Association. Materialism," PHREN ALAMANAC, 2 (1843): 17-22. Introductory Address--
• 465.6 — 465.6 Testimonials in Favor of Mr. David Geo. Goyder, candidate for the office of Lecturer on Phrenology in the Andersonian University, Glasgow. Paisley: printed by Neilson & Murray, 1845. Pp. 24.
• 465.7 — 465.7 "Marriage Considered Phrenologically," PHREN ALMANAC & PSYCH ANN, 5 (1846): 25-31.
• 465.8 — 465.8 Poetical Illustrations introduced into the Phrenological Lectures of David George Goyder M.D. [sic]. Published by request; Ipswich: printed by J. M. Burton, 1848. Pp. 32. (Contributions by J. THOMAS, J. PIERPOINT, and T. MILLER.) [Leeds Pub Lib]
• 465.9 — 465.9 My Battle for Life: The Autobiography of a Phrenologist. London: Simpkin, Marshall, 1857. Pp.

Editorial Information

465. GOYDER, David George (1796-1878), practical phrenologist of
Glasgow; educationalist, sometime apothecary and Swedenborgian
preacher; Church background; apprenticed to a brush maker, 1810,
and to a printer, 1814, before becoming schoolmaster to a Swedenborgian society in Bristol in the early 1820s; brother of Thomas Goyder (1786-1849) Swedenborgian minister; became inspector of Pestaloz
zian schools and travelled widely; settled briefly in Hull and Newcastle before moving to Glasgow where he became the resident prac
tical phrenologist; published on Swedenborgianism; attracted to phre
nology, 1822, after CROOK'S lectures in Bristol, but did not begin
lecturing on phrenology until 1839; travelled extensively in England
and Scotland and lectured in every village within a 40-mile radius of
Glasgow; ed PHREN ALMANAC; M GLASGOW PHREN SOC; M PHREN
ASSN from Sept 1840; operated a private phrenology museum in Glasgow; unsuccessful applicant in 1845 for the lectureship in phrenology
at the Andersonian University (losing to WEIR); died in Bradford.
(MEB; and Autobio, 1857, cited below.)