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GREG, William Rathbone (1809-1881)

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Born: 1809

Died: 1881

Editorial Description

essayist; brother of Robert Hyde Greg and Samuel Greg; educated at Edin Univ; student pres of the Plinian Soc; 18 years a mill owner at Styal; commissioner of customs, 1856; author of, among other things, Mistaken Aims and Attainable Ideals of the Working Classes, 1876. (DNB).

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

479.1 — 479.1 Observations on a late Pamphlet by Mr. Stone, on the Phrenological Development of Burke, Hare, etc. Edin: John Anderson, 1829. Pp. 14. [Manchester Pub Lib] (An attack on T. STONE for his incapacity to reason. Reviewed PHREN J, 6 [1829/30]: 234-7.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	479.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	158
Printed page	153
Database ID	1463

Original Transcription

479. GREG, William Rathbone (1809-81), essayist; brother of Robert
Hyde Greg and Samuel Greg; educated at Edin Univ; student pres
of the Plinian Soc; 18 years a mill owner at Styal; commissioner of
customs, 1856; author of, among other things, Mistaken Aims and
Attainable Ideals of the Working Classes, 1876. (DNB).