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MONTGOMERY, Robert (1807-1855)

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Born: 1807

Died: 1855

Title: Rev.

Editorial Description

poetaster; wrote religious poems which were over-praised in the press; incumbent of St. Jude's, Glasgow, 1836; minister of Percy Chapel, St. Pancras, London, 1843; regarded by D. G. GOYDER as "the bitterest opponent to phrenology in Glasgow"; wrote anonymously "The Age Reviewed" in which he satirized GALL, SPURZHEIM, DEVILLE, and G. COMBE. (DNB)

Editorial Information

Identifier	794.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	241
Printed page	236
Database ID	2269

Original Transcription

794. MONTGOMERY, Rev. Robert (1807-55), poetaster; wrote religious
poems which were over-praised in the press; incumbent of St. Jude's,
Glasgow, 1836; minister of Percy Chapel, St. Pancras, London, 1843;
regarded by D. G. GOYDER as "the bitterest opponent to phrenology
in Glasgow"; wrote anonymously "The Age Reviewed" in which he
satirized GALL, SPURZHEIM, DEVILLE, and G. COMBE. (DNB)