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HALL, Samuel Carter (1800-1889)

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Born: 1800

Died: 1889

Editorial Description

author and editor; fourth of 12 children; bankrupted in 1837; began a conservative Whig journal, c1831, co-ed Colburn's New Monthly Mag, 1830s, sub-ed John Bull (1837) and wrote for the Wesleyan Watchman; granted a civil pension by Disraeli in 1880 for his services to literature and art; founded the Spiritual Athenaeum in 1866 with ELLIOTSON; M LONDON PHREN SOC from Dec 1832. (DNB)

Editorial Information

Identifier	492.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	161
Printed page	156
Database ID	1489

Original Transcription

492. HALL, Samuel Carter (1800-89), author and editor; fourth of
12 children; bankrupted in 1837; began a conservative Whig journal,
c1831, co-ed Colburn's New Monthly Mag, 1830s, sub-ed John Bull
(1837) and wrote for the Wesleyan Watchman; granted a civil pension
by Disraeli in 1880 for his services to literature and art; founded
the Spiritual Athenaeum in 1866 with ELLIOTSON; M LONDON PHREN
SOC from Dec 1832. (DNB)