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WEIR, William (1794-1876)

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Metadata

Born: 1794

Died: 1876

Postnominals: MD

Editorial Description

Glasgow 1829; LFP & S. Glas, 1814, and fell 1816; pres Faculty, 1847-9; surg to Roy Infirmary, Glasgow, 1829, and phys there from 1840; sec to and lecturer on practice of med at the Portland St Med Sch, Glasgow, 1830-42; original promoter and co-ed GLASGOW MED J, 1830-32; involved in Br Assn negotiations, 1839; the son of a music teacher who was also sometimes precentor in St. George's Church, Glasgow; M GLASGOW PHREN SOC and M PHREN ASSN, 1840; held chair of phrenology in Andersonian Univ, 1846 (£50 p.a.); lectured publicly on phrenology in Glasgow, 1831-4 and 1841-2, Greenock, 1835; provided testimonials for G. MACKENZIE and G. COMBE, 1836, and for GOYDER, 1845; owned a private phrenological museum. (MEB)

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

1179.1 — 1179.1 *"Measurement and Development of the Cast From the Head of Mrs. Jeffray," PHREN ALMANAC, 1 (1842): 44-51.
1179.2 — 1179.2 "Concluding Address to his Phrenological Class in Anderson's University, Glasgow, 8th April 1846," PHREN J, 19 (1846): 326-8.
1179.3 — 1179.3 "Gall, Franz-Joseph," Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biography, vol 2, 1857 [1881 edn]: 539-40.

Editorial Information

Identifier	1179.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	346
Printed page	341
Database ID	3261

Original Transcription

1179. WEIR, William (1794-1876), MD Glasgow 1829; LFP & S. Glas,
1814, and fell 1816; pres Faculty, 1847-9; surg to Roy Infirmary,
Glasgow, 1829, and phys there from 1840; sec to and lecturer on
practice of med at the Portland St Med Sch, Glasgow, 1830-42; original promoter and co-ed GLASGOW MED J, 1830-32; involved in Br
Assn negotiations, 1839; the son of a music teacher who was also
sometimes precentor in St. George's Church, Glasgow; M GLASGOW
PHREN SOC and M PHREN ASSN, 1840; held chair of phrenology in
Andersonian Univ, 1846 (£50 p.a.); lectured publicly on phrenology
in Glasgow, 1831-4 and 1841-2, Greenock, 1835; provided testimonials
for G. MACKENZIE and G. COMBE, 1836, and for GOYDER, 1845;
owned a private phrenological museum. (MEB)