Joseph Millot Severn was an English writer, historian, and

phrenologist Phrenology () is a pseudoscience which involves the measurement of bumps on the skull to predict mental traits.Wihe, J. V. (2002). "Science and Pseudoscience: A Primer in Critical Thinking." In ''Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience'', pp. 195–203. C ...

born in

Codnor Codnor is a village and civil parish in the Amber Valley district of Derbyshire, England. Codnor is a former mining village and had a population of 3,766 (including Cross Hill) taken at the 2011 Census. It is approximately 12 miles from Derby and ...

Derbyshire Derbyshire ( ) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands, England. It includes much of the Peak District National Park, the southern end of the Pennine range of hills and part of the National Forest. It borders Greater Manchester to the nor ...

Biography

Severn was born in 1860Phrenology at the Whipple library
accessed June 2007 and worked as a phrenologist in

Brighton Brighton () is a seaside resort and one of the two main areas of the City of Brighton and Hove in the county of East Sussex, England. It is located south of London. Archaeological evidence of settlement in the area dates back to the Bronze A ...

. 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.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) righton Phrenological Institution*''Joseph Severn: Letters And Memoirs (Nineteenth Century Series)'' - by Joseph Severn, Grant F. Scott, Ashgate Publishing (2005)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Severn, Joseph Millot, Prof 1860 births 1942 deaths People from Codnor English non-fiction writers Phrenologists English male non-fiction writers People from Brighton