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BALLY, William

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Editorial Description

modeller and delineator; born in Switzerland; while in Birmingham in the 1830s he employed HOLYOAKE to bring him customers; travelled with SPURZHEIM, 1829-31 and then with BARBER on phrenological tours; ran the Phrenological Gallery on King's St., Manchester in the 1830s and 1840s, and served as curator of the MANCHESTER PHREN SOC, 1838; M PHREN ASSN; regarded by Mancunians as the best practical phrenologist in England; taught plaster casting in the Manchester Mechanics' Inst and lectured on this in Midland towns in the 1830s; lectured on phrenology (chiefly to "mothers and guardians") in the Manchester Athenaeum, 1842; retired to Switzerland, 1848, donating his collection of over 1,000 casts to the Manchester Mechanics' Inst.

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

54.1 — 54.1 Syllabus of a Course of Six Lectures, on Plaster and Wax Casting, Modelling, etc. to be delivered at the Mechanics' Institute, Slater Street, Liverpool: printed, July 1833.
54.2 — 54.2 Monsieur Bally's Lectures in Casting, Modelling, etc., Nottingham: printed, 1833.
54.3 — 54.3 "On the head of James Lowe, the Salford idiot--at Phrenological Association, Glasgow," PHREN J, 14 (1841): 56-7.
54.4 — 54.4 "Mr. Bally's Phrenological Lesson," Manchester Guardian, 14 Dec 1842: 3.
54.5 — 54.5 "Mr. Bally's Phrenological Gallery, Mechanics' Institution," Manchester Guardian, 10 Jan, 1844: 6.

Editorial Information

Identifier	54.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	23
Printed page	18
Database ID	170

Original Transcription

54. BALLY, Monsieur William, modeller and delineator; born in
Switzerland; while in Birmingham in the 1830s he employed HOLYOAKE
to bring him customers; travelled with SPURZHEIM, 1829-31 and then
with BARBER on phrenological tours; ran the Phrenological Gallery
on King's St., Manchester in the 1830s and 1840s, and served as
curator of the MANCHESTER PHREN SOC, 1838; M PHREN ASSN;
regarded by Mancunians as the best practical phrenologist in England;
taught plaster casting in the Manchester Mechanics' Inst and lectured
on this in Midland towns in the 1830s; lectured on phrenology (chiefly
to "mothers and guardians") in the Manchester Athenaeum, 1842; retired to Switzerland, 1848, donating his collection of over 1,000 casts
to the Manchester Mechanics' Inst.