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LYNILL, John Preston

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Editorial Description

salesman and stock broker of Mosley St. Manchester; sec MANCHESTER PHREN SOC; M PHREN ASSN; like R. COBDEN, an active member of the Manchester Athenaeum where, in 1836, he organized a short-lived phrenology class, where, in 1840, he delivered a paper "On the metaphysics of phrenology," and where in 1839 and 1843 he arranged for the phrenology lectures of H. C. WATSON.

Editorial Information

Identifier 692.
Type Person
Source Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page 219
Printed page 214
Database ID 2049
Original Transcription 
692. LYNILL, John Preston, salesman and stock broker of Mosley
St. Manchester; sec MANCHESTER PHREN SOC; M PHREN ASSN;
like R. COBDEN, an active member of the Manchester Athenaeum
where, in 1836, he organized a short-lived phrenology class, where,
in 1840, he delivered a paper "On the metaphysics of phrenology,"
and where in 1839 and 1843 he arranged for the phrenology lectures
of H. C. WATSON.