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MACONOCHIE, Alexander

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RN Capt; FGS; sec Royal Geographical Soc of London; endorsed phrenology and supplied G. COMBE with a testimonial, 1836; a friend of W. TREVELYAN; appointed assistant to Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, Sir John Franklin, 1836, and, in 1840, the commanding officer of the convict colony on Norfolk Island, where he distinguished himself as penal reformer; author of Crime and Punishment: the Mark System, framed to mix persuasion with punishment, and make their effect improving, yet their operation severe (1846).


Editorial Information

Identifier 731.
Type Person
Source Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page 227
Printed page 222
Database ID 2127

Original Transcription
731. MACONOCHIE, Alexander, RN Capt; FGS; sec Royal Geographical Soc of London; endorsed phrenology and supplied G. COMBE with
a testimonial, 1836; a friend of W. TREVELYAN; appointed assistant


to Lieutenant-Governor of New South Wales, Sir John Franklin, 1836,
and, in 1840, the commanding officer of the convict colony on Norfolk Island, where he distinguished himself as penal reformer; author
of Crime and Punishment: the Mark System, framed to mix persuasion with punishment, and make their effect improving, yet their
operation severe (1846).