manufacturing and wholesale chemist and town councillor of Wolverhampton; zealous sanitary improver and would-be educator of the working-class; nominally of the Church of England and a highly Christian phrenologist; life cut short by an embarrassing bankruptcy; M Br Assn; M PHREN ASSN, 1839; lectured on phrenology at Wolverhampton Mechanics' Inst, 1840- 2 and Ironbridge, 1841; also lectured on geology, education, and literature. (Memoir in Lectures, 1857)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
688.1
— 688.1 "Case of Large Development of Eventuality and Time," PHREN J, 12 (1839): 257-8.
688.2
— 688.2 "Cases illustrating the Function of that Part of the Brain, called Concentrativeness or Inhabitiveness," PHREN J, 13 (1840): 254-7.
688.3
— 688.3 "Mr. Spencer Hall and the 'New Organs'," PHREN J, 16 (1843): 8-14.
688.4
— 688.4 "Case of John Williams, executed at Shewsbury, on Saturday, April 2, 1842, for the wilful Murder of Emma Evans," PHREN J, 16 (1843): 62-70.
688.5
— 688.5 "Phrenology and the Church of England Periodicals," PHREN J, 16 (1843): 310-11.
688.6
— 688.6 "Remarks on Mr. Prideaux's Theory of Volition, as the Cause of Phreno-Mesmeric Manifestations," PHREN J, 17 (1844): 276-87.
688.7
— 688.7 "Rejoinder to Mr. Prideaux's article on Phreno-Mesmerism published in last Number of the Phrenological Journal," PHREN J, 18 (1845): 144-9.
688.8
— 688.8 "Phrenology in Relation to Religion"; "The Principles of Phrenology"; and "Heads of Criminals," in his Lectures on Popular and Scientific Subjects delivered at Various Literary Institutions, and a few Poetical Remains by the late William Robinson Lowe of Wolverhampton (edited by his Sister) with a brief introductory memoir by the Rev. J. B. Owen, M.A., of St. John's, Bedford Row, London. Wolverhampton: T. Simpson, 1857. Pp. 437.
Editorial Information
Identifier
688.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
217
Printed page
212
Database ID
2036
Original Transcription
688. LOWE, William Robinson (1820-56), manufacturing and wholesale chemist and town councillor of Wolverhampton; zealous sanitary
improver and would-be educator of the working-class; nominally of
the Church of England and a highly Christian phrenologist; life cut
short by an embarrassing bankruptcy; M Br Assn; M PHREN ASSN,
1839; lectured on phrenology at Wolverhampton Mechanics' Inst, 1840-
2 and Ironbridge, 1841; also lectured on geology, education, and
literature. (Memoir in Lectures, 1857)