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RIGG, J.

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Editorial Description

of Birmingham; commenced anti-phrenology lectures in Birmingham, 1843, and in Halifax; debated with YATES at Bradford Mechanics' Inst, Jan 1843. (? John Clulow Rigg, d. 1868, son of the Revd John Rigg; assistant to a phys of Barton-on-Humber; clerk to Mr. Kell, stockbroker; ed Watchman 1848-64.)

Editorial Information

Identifier	957.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	286
Printed page	281
Database ID	2697

Original Transcription

957. RIGG, J., of Birmingham; commenced anti-phrenology lectures
in Birmingham, 1843, and in Halifax; debated with YATES at Bradford Mechanics' Inst, Jan 1843. (? John Clulow Rigg, d. 1868, son
of the Revd John Rigg; assistant to a phys of Barton-on-Humber;
clerk to Mr. Kell, stockbroker; ed Watchman 1848-64.)