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IRELAND, Alexander (1810-1894)

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Born: 1810

Died: 1894

Editorial Description

journalist and man of letters; friend of Robert CHAMBERS and publisher of CHAMBERS' Vestiges; settled in Manchester in 1843 as editor of Manchester Examiner, 1846-86; promoted popular science and arranged the English tour of Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1847-8; councillor on EDIN ETHICAL SOC FOR THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF PHRENOLOGY, 1836. (DNB)

Editorial Information

Identifier	585.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	186
Printed page	181
Database ID	1724

Original Transcription

585. IRELAND, Alexander (1810-94), journalist and man of letters;
friend of Robert CHAMBERS and publisher of CHAMBERS' Vestiges;
settled in Manchester in 1843 as editor of Manchester Examiner,
1846-86; promoted popular science and arranged the English tour of
Ralph Waldo Emerson in 1847-8; councillor on EDIN ETHICAL SOC
FOR THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF PHRENOLOGY, 1836. (DNB)