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HAMILTON, Richard Winter (1794-1848)

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Born: 1794

Died: 1848

Title: Rev.

Postnominals: LLD

Editorial Description

Glasgow, 1844; DD; author, minister of the Albion Independent Chapel, Leeds; elected chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales, 1847; pres Leeds Lit & Phil Soc, 1836-8, where he delivered his Essay, referring to phrenology as "a mischievous fable to posterity." (DNB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

501.1 — 501.1 An Essay on Craniology, being the substance of a paper submitted to the Philosophical and Literary Society Leeds, December 2, 1825. London & Leeds: printed, 1826. Pp. 104. (A sportive essay designed to refute the common suspicion that there is a necessary alliance between the medical profession and a materializing infidelity. Reviewed PHREN J, 3 [1825/6]: 473-6.) Reprinted in his Nugae Literariae [1841].

Editorial Information

Identifier	501.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	163
Printed page	158
Database ID	1505

Original Transcription

501. HAMILTON, Rev. Richard Winter (1794-1848), LLD Glasgow,
1844; DD; author, minister of the Albion Independent Chapel, Leeds;
elected chairman of the Congregational Union of England and Wales,
1847; pres Leeds Lit & Phil Soc, 1836-8, where he delivered his
Essay, referring to phrenology as "a mischievous fable to posterity."
(DNB)