Joseph Millott Severn

Joseph Millot Severn was an English writer, historian, and phrenologist born in Codnor, Derbyshire.[1]

Joseph Millot Severn
Born1860
Codnor
Died1942
Brighton
OccupationPhrenologist
NationalityEnglish
Period1912-
SubjectPhrenology, History

Biography

Severn was born in 1860[2] and worked as a phrenologist in Brighton. He was President of the British Phrenological Association. This association started in the 1880s and was disbanded in 1967. "Professor" Severn wrote a number of books and funded some almhouses in his home village of Codnor.

Severn died at his home in Brighton in 1942.[1]

Major works (incomplete)
  • My village: Owd Codnor, Derbyshire, and the village folk when I was a boy (1935)
  • Phrenology: Up to date (1912)
  • Popular phrenology (1913)
  • Phrenological and physiological chart (1905) [Brighton Phrenological Institution]
  • Joseph Severn: Letters And Memoirs (Nineteenth Century Series) - by Joseph Severn, Grant F. Scott, Ashgate Publishing (2005)

References
    • Joseph Severn, Codnor & District Local History & Heritage website, accessed 27 January 2009
  2. Phrenology at the Whipple library Archived 2007-08-09 at the Wayback Machine accessed June 2007
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