Joseph Millott Severn

Joseph Millot Severn (1860-1942) was an English writer, historian, and phrenologist born in Codnor, Derbyshire.^[1]

Joseph Millot Severn
Born	1860 Codnor
Died	1942 Brighton
Occupation	Phrenologist
Nationality	English
Period	1912-
Subject	Phrenology, 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. 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)