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BEECHEY, Canon St. Vincent (1796-1856)

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Born: 1796

Died: 1856


Editorial Description

claimed by J. W. TAYLOR (Applied Psychology [1913]: 70) to have been SPURZHEIM'S demonstrator; possibly Frederick William Beechey , rear-admiral and geographer who entered the Navy in 1806 under the direct patronage of the 1st Earl St. Vincent, Admiral of the Fleet, and who was on Parry's Arctic expedition of 1819, but was onshore for some years after 1828; several works on phrenology deposited in the British Library came from his library.


Editorial Information

Identifier 78.
Type Person
Source Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page 28
Printed page 23
Database ID 225

Original Transcription
78. BEECHEY, Canon St. Vincent, claimed by J. W. TAYLOR (Applied Psychology [1913]: 70) to have been SPURZHEIM'S demonstrator; possibly Frederick William Beechey (1796-1856), rear-admiral
and geographer who entered the Navy in 1806 under the direct patronage of the 1st Earl St. Vincent, Admiral of the Fleet, and who
was on Parry's Arctic expedition of 1819, but was onshore for some
years after 1828; several works on phrenology deposited in the British
Library came from his library.