City correspondent or financial ed The Times, 1846-79 (£1,000 pa); formerly for many years secretary to the Treasury Committee of the Bank of England; wrote for the Economist and the SPECTATOR and ed Popular Record; an accomplished classical scholar; met G. COMBE in New York in 1838 and maintained a long correspondence with him on phrenology, currency, and stocks and shares; a founding member of EPP'S British Homoeopathic Assn, and was on its committee, 1840s; established himself as an authority on the phrenological treatment of criminals, criminal jurisprudence, and reform; M PHREN ASSN from Sept 1840, putting forward with SIMPSON in 1842 the "declaration of expediency" to hold the Assn together; lectured to large audiences in various London insts in the late 1830s and early 1840s. (MEB; Appendix A: Stern, 1974)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
994.1
— 994.1 "Notes on the Faculties of Locality and Weight, in a letter to Mr. Combe (From the American Phrenological Journal)," PHREN J, 12 (1839): 366-9.
994.2
— 994.2 [6 letters on] Criminal Jurisprudence in Relation to Mental Organization and Social Responsibility," SPECTATOR, 10 Oct 1840-9 Jan 1841: 979-80, 1003-5, 1018, 1075-6, 1122-3, 1217-19, 42-44. Published (with funding from the Henderson Trust) as:
994.3
— 994.3 Criminal Jurisprudence Considered in Relation to Mental Organization. London: S. Highley, 1841. Pp. 29. (6d). (Dedicated to Sir G. MACKENZIE; reviewed, PHREN J, 15 [1842]: 63-76.) 3rd edn, revised and enlarged, 1851. New York edn of 1846 as: Appropriate Treatment; being a Treatise on Criminal Jurisprudence Considered in Relation to Cerebral Organization. 2nd London edn, with notes and illus trations by Eliza W. Farnham [matron of Sing Sing Prison], New York: Appleton, 1846. (This became the standard source in the argument against the notion that criminal behavior was a form of insanity; ef: DUNCAN, 1865 and see A114)
994.5
— 994.5 "Phrenology in its Application to the Treatment of Criminals [read before the PHREN ASSN, 1841]," LANCET, 5 Feb 1842: 639-43; and 12 Feb 1842: 672-77. (Replied to by DICK)
994.6
— 994.6 "Phrenology the Science of the Mind, its Application to Mental Education," LANCET, 19 Mar 1842: 848-50. (His reply to DICK which raised a storm of letters to the editor from DAVEY, HEURTLEY, HUTCH and W. MILLER.)
994.7
— 994.7 The Phrenological Theory of the Treatment of Criminals Defended, in a letter to John Forbes, Esq., M.D., F.R.S., F.G.S., &c Editor of the British and Foreign Medical Review. London: S. Highley, 1843. Pp. 20. (6d) (FORBES had condemned his Criminal Jurisprudence; reviewed, PHREN J, 17 [1844]: 58-64; and LIT GAZ, 3 Feb 1844: 77.)
Editorial Information
Identifier
994.
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Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
293
Printed page
288
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2761
Original Transcription
994. SAMPSON, Marmaduke Blake (d. 1876), City correspondent or
financial ed The Times, 1846-79 (£1,000 pa); formerly for many
years secretary to the Treasury Committee of the Bank of England;
wrote for the Economist and the SPECTATOR and ed Popular Record;
an accomplished classical scholar; met G. COMBE in New York in
1838 and maintained a long correspondence with him on phrenology,
currency, and stocks and shares; a founding member of EPP'S
British Homoeopathic Assn, and was on its committee, 1840s; established himself as an authority on the phrenological treatment of
criminals, criminal jurisprudence, and reform; M PHREN ASSN from
Sept 1840, putting forward with SIMPSON in 1842 the "declaration of
expediency" to hold the Assn together; lectured to large audiences
in various London insts in the late 1830s and early 1840s. (MEB;
Appendix A: Stern, 1974)