Joseph Millott Severn

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Joseph Millot Severn
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Born	1880 Codnor
Occupation	Phrenologist
Nationality	English
Writing period	1912-
Subjects	Phrenology, History

Joseph Millot Severn was a phrenologist born in Codnor, Derbyshire

[edit] Biography

Joseph was born in 1860^[1] and worked as a phrenologist in Brighton. Joseph was President of the British Phrenological Association. This association started in the 1880s and was disbanded in 1967. "Profesor" Joseph wrote a number of books and funded some almhouses in his home village of Codnor.

[edit] 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

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