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BIRCH, William John (1811-1863)

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Born: 1811

Died: 1863

Editorial Description

barrister; son of a captain in the East Indian commercial service; educated at Balliol and New Inn Hall, Oxford, BA 1832; leading contributor to freethought funds; supporter of Italy; author of An Inquiry into the Philosophy and Religion of Shakespeare (1848); delivered seven free lectures on phrenology in Manchester Lyceum, 1840; also lectured in 1840 on popular religious fallacies and on "natural theology deduced from the mind" in mechanics' institutes in Manchester and Liverpool. (MEB) Birmingham Journal,

Editorial Information

Identifier	90.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	30
Printed page	25
Database ID	242

Original Transcription

90. BIRCH, William John (1811-63), barrister; son of a captain in
the East Indian commercial service; educated at Balliol and New Inn
Hall, Oxford, BA 1832; leading contributor to freethought funds;
supporter of Italy; author of An Inquiry into the Philosophy and
Religion of Shakespeare (1848); delivered seven free lectures on
phrenology in Manchester Lyceum, 1840; also lectured in 1840 on
popular religious fallacies and on "natural theology deduced from the
mind" in mechanics' institutes in Manchester and Liverpool. (MEB)
Birmingham Journal,