Joseph Millott Severn
Joseph Millot Severn was an English writer, historian, and phrenologist born in Codnor, Derbyshire.
Biography
Severn was born in 1860 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.
Major works (incomplete)
My village: Owd Codnor, Derbyshire, and the village folk when I was a boy Phrenology: Up to date- Popular phrenology Phrenological and physiological chart
- Joseph Severn: Letters And Memoirs - by Joseph Severn, Grant F. Scott, Ashgate Publishing