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BARKER, Edward (1798-1832)

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Born: 1798

Died: 1832

Editorial Description

Sheffield pen-knife manufacturer and operator of the Sheffield Lead Works; Unitarian; notable chemist; active radical in the 1820s; curator of mineralogy department of the Sheffield Lit & Phil Soc; lectured regularly on phrenology at the Sheffield Med Inst; M Br Assn.

Editorial Information

Identifier	59.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	24
Printed page	19
Database ID	183

Original Transcription

59. BARKER, Edward (1798-1832), Sheffield pen-knife manufacturer
and operator of the Sheffield Lead Works; Unitarian; notable chemist;
active radical in the 1820s; curator of mineralogy department of the
Sheffield Lit & Phil Soc; lectured regularly on phrenology at the
Sheffield Med Inst; M Br Assn.