practical "pier" phrenologist of Morecambe, Lancashire; proprietor of the BR PHRENOLOGICAL COLLEGE, Morecambe, 1888-1921 (formerly the "Phrenological" and "Phreno-Hygienic Inst," associated with the FOWLER INST in London); ed BR PHREN ANNUAL; took up phrenology in 1886 on the advice of James Riding of Bolton and H. Proctor of Liverpool; sec Morecambe branch of the UNIV PHREN SOC, 1890s; M BR PHREN ASSN; his son, Robert Fowler Taylor, hon sec of the BR PHREN ASSN, 1915, was killed in the Great War; charged 1s 6d to £2 for a phrenological delineation; issued from his Inst in Morecambe over 30 unoriginal phrenological pamphlets (of which only a sample are listed here). (I. ELLIS, Life of Taylor, reprinted from KNOW THYSELF, Batley, 1892.)
Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)
1098.1
— 1098.1 Improved Phrenological and Physiological Chart, and Self-Instructor. Being a Chart of Mental Philosophy and Synopsis of Phrenology [i.e., a Register]. Morecambe: Taylor & Co, 1889. Pp. 77. (6d). 4th edn, revised and enlarged, 1892.
1098.2
— 1098.2 The Functions of the Cerebellum: the Amative Instinct; Its Nature, Office, Laws, etc. A Lecture to Young Men. Morecambe: Taylor & Co, [1892]. Pp. 14. (2d)
1098.3
— 1098.3 Result of Research in Mental Science; or the Modern Scientific Phrenological and Physiological Register and Self- Instructor. Blackpool, printed at the 'Times' Office; London: L. N. Fowler; and New York: Fowler & Wells, 1898. Pp. 107. (1s or 25 cents)
1098.4
— 1098.4 Logical and Scientific Phrenology Vindicated! John William Taylor's Reply to Cranion's (J. P. Blackford) Criticism of 'Result of Research in Mental Science'; and Prospectus of Modern Mental Philosophy. Morecambe: L. N. Fowler, [1898]. Pp. 8. (1d) (BLACKFORD had attacked Taylor's rubbishy publication.) Another edn, including What the Press, Phrenological Experts and Students think of the New Book, 1901, pp. 16.
1098.5
— 1098.5 Prospectus of the Revised Twentieth-Century Phrenology Embracing A New Seven-fold Classification of the Temperaments. Morecambe: J. W. & G. Taylor, 1899. Pp. 250.
1098.6
— 1098.6 The Unique Self-Teacher and Guide to Success. Abridged from Result of Research in Mental Science. 10th edn, Morecambe: Taylor & Co, 1900. Pp. 81. (1s) (A register of faculties) Other edns to 1915.
1098.7
— 1098.7 The Revised Twentieth-Century Phrenology. Morecambe: J. W. & G. Taylor; London: Fowler, 1901. Pp. 250. (Originally published in 1898 as Modern Mental Philosophy.)
1098.8
— 1098.8 A Guide to Life's Calling. Being a series of essays on phrenology. Morecambe: J. W. Taylor; London: Fowler, 1906. Pp. 64. (6d)
1098.9
— 1098.9 Applied Psychology or Faculties of the Mind. Illus trated [by phrenology]. Morecambe: Taylor; London: Fowler, [1913]. Pp. 251.
Editorial Information
Identifier
1098.
Type
Person
Source
Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page
326
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321
Database ID
3068
Original Transcription
1098. TAYLOR, John William (b. 1865), practical "pier" phrenologist
of Morecambe, Lancashire; proprietor of the BR PHRENOLOGICAL
COLLEGE, Morecambe, 1888-1921 (formerly the "Phrenological" and
"Phreno-Hygienic Inst," associated with the FOWLER INST in London);
ed BR PHREN ANNUAL; took up phrenology in 1886 on the advice of
James Riding of Bolton and H. Proctor of Liverpool; sec Morecambe
branch of the UNIV PHREN SOC, 1890s; M BR PHREN ASSN; his
son, Robert Fowler Taylor, hon sec of the BR PHREN ASSN, 1915,
was killed in the Great War; charged 1s 6d to £2 for a phrenological
delineation; issued from his Inst in Morecambe over 30 unoriginal phrenological pamphlets (of which only a sample are listed here). (I.
ELLIS, Life of Taylor, reprinted from KNOW THYSELF, Batley, 1892.)