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LACON, Joseph

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Editorial Description

Solicitor and general literary author; pres Liverpool Philomathic Soc, 1831; early promoter of Liverpool Mechanics' Inst and gave the first lectures on phrenology there, 1832-3.

Editorial Information

Identifier	634.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	199
Printed page	194
Database ID	1852

Original Transcription

634. LACON, Joseph, Solicitor and general literary author; pres
Liverpool Philomathic Soc, 1831; early promoter of Liverpool Mechanics'
Inst and gave the first lectures on phrenology there, 1832-3.