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BUSHEA (sometimes Bu Shea and Beau Sheau), Henri

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Editorial Description

"professor," "Dr." and "LLD"; itinerant manipulator; present at the anti- phrenological lectures of BRINDLEY in London, 1842, where he had to be carried off the stage; regular itinerant in the Midlands, 1842- 6; based in Sheffield, 1841-2, where he established a museum and lectured at the Mechanics' Inst and elsewhere, and proposed a "Phrenological Institute and Anti-Socialist Society"; endeavored to prove the harmony of phrenology with scripture. (Comments on in H. CLARKE, 1845.)


Editorial Information

Identifier 175.
Type Person
Source Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page 49
Printed page 44
Database ID 431

Original Transcription
175. BUSHEA (sometimes Bu Shea and Beau Sheau), Henri, "professor," "Dr." and "LLD"; itinerant manipulator; present at the anti-


phrenological lectures of BRINDLEY in London, 1842, where he had
to be carried off the stage; regular itinerant in the Midlands, 1842-
6; based in Sheffield, 1841-2, where he established a museum and
lectured at the Mechanics' Inst and elsewhere, and proposed a "Phrenological Institute and Anti-Socialist Society"; endeavored to prove
the harmony of phrenology with scripture. (Comments on in H.
CLARKE, 1845.)