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WILSON, John (1799-1870)

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Born: 1799

Died: 1870

Editorial Description

practical phrenologist of Cheltenham, 1840s; lectured in Ireland and England in the 1830s; wrote several religious works, millennial and of a strongly Christian phrenological bent; gave a course of six lectures on phrenology at Birmingham Roy Med School at the request of the BIRMINGHAM PHREN SOC, 1842.

Works as Listed by Roger Cooter (1989)

1210.1 — 1210.1 Phrenology Consistent with Reason and Revelation. 2 vols. I First Principles. II Christian Phrenology. Dublin: R. D. Webb, 1836. Pp. 62, 128. Another edn, Cheltenham, 1843. (Has a chapter on "Phrenology repudiates Owenism.")

Editorial Information

Identifier	1210.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	353
Printed page	348
Database ID	3317

Original Transcription

1210. WILSON, John (1799-1870), practical phrenologist of Cheltenham, 1840s; lectured in Ireland and England in the 1830s; wrote
several religious works, millennial and of a strongly Christian phrenological bent; gave a course of six lectures on phrenology at Birmingham Roy Med School at the request of the BIRMINGHAM PHREN
SOC, 1842.