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MARRIOTT, Revd Joseph (b. 1794)

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Born: 1794

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from a wealthy London family; abandoned law studies to become a dissenting preacher in Lancashire; attracted to Owenite socialism and became a committee member for Warrington, 1831, and wrote Owenite tracts; on the committee that drew up the rules for Owen's National Community, but became better known in manufacturing districts as 'the chairman of the first-Co-operative Congress'; turned to public lecturing on phrenology in the 1840s and was for some time based at Bristol where he lectured on phrenology and delineated, later lecturing at the Royal Adelaide Gallery, London, and at various workingmen's insts in the 1840s; also lectured on social and domestic economy in the North and Midlands; made proposals to establish Ragged Scientific Insts and spoke on phrenology at Goswell St Inst, 1848 after HOLYOAKE'S lecture on "Logic of Death."

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740. MARRIOTT, Revd Joseph (b.1794), from a wealthy London
family; abandoned law studies to become a dissenting preacher in
Lancashire; attracted to Owenite socialism and became a committee
member for Warrington, 1831, and wrote Owenite tracts; on the committee that drew up the rules for Owen's National Community, but
became better known in manufacturing districts as 'the chairman of
the first-Co-operative Congress'; turned to public lecturing on phrenology in the 1840s and was for some time based at Bristol where he
lectured on phrenology and delineated, later lecturing at the Royal
Adelaide Gallery, London, and at various workingmen's insts in the
1840s; also lectured on social and domestic economy in the North and
Midlands; made proposals to establish Ragged Scientific Insts and
spoke on phrenology at Goswell St Inst, 1848 after HOLYOAKE'S lecture on "Logic of Death."