Joseph Millott Severn
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| birth_date = 1860
| birth_place = Codnor
| death_date = 1942
| death_place = Brighton
| occupation = Phrenologist
| nationality = English
| period = 1912-
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Joseph Millot Severn (1860-1942) was an English writer, historian, and phrenologist born in Codnor, Derbyshire.
Biography
Severn was born in 1860[http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/library/reservesevern.html Phrenology at the Whipple library] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070809233903/http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/library/reservesevern.html |date=2007-08-09 }} accessed June 2007 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. 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.*[http://www.codnor.info/jmsevern.php Joseph Severn], Codnor & District Local History & Heritage website, accessed 27 January 2009
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
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External links
- {{Internet Archive author |sname=Joseph Millott Severn |sopt=t}}
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Category:English non-fiction writers