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Born: 1786
Died: 1849
Swedenborgian; independently wealthy; grad Trinity Coll, Cambridge, 1805; friend of FLAXMAN, S. T. Coleridge and William Blake, SPURZHEIM and Joseph Hume; FRS, 1822; frequently held office as pres of the LONDON PHREN SOC in the 1820s and 1830s; MP for Sudbury, 1820-6 and for Poole, 1841; a magistrate of Middlesex, 1836-47; and chairman of the Committee of Management of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, 1839-47; author of Swedenborgian works and the founder (1810) of the Society for Publishing Swedenborg's Works; occupied the chair at the PHREN ASSN meeting of 1843. (DNB)
| Identifier | 1132. |
|---|---|
| Type | Person |
| Source | Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989) |
| PDF page | 333 |
| Printed page | 328 |
| Database ID | 3135 |
1132. TULK, Charles Augustus (1786-1849), Swedenborgian; independently wealthy; grad Trinity Coll, Cambridge, 1805; friend of FLAXMAN, S. T. Coleridge and William Blake, SPURZHEIM and Joseph Hume; FRS, 1822; frequently held office as pres of the LONDON PHREN SOC in the 1820s and 1830s; MP for Sudbury, 1820-6 and for Poole, 1841; a magistrate of Middlesex, 1836-47; and chairman of the Committee of Management of the Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, 1839-47; author of Swedenborgian works and the founder (1810) of the Society for Publishing Swedenborg's Works; occupied the chair at the PHREN ASSN meeting of 1843. (DNB)