Joseph Millott Severn

Joseph Millot Severn (1860-1942) was an English writer, historian, and phrenologist born in Codnor, Derbyshire. and worked as a phrenologist in Brighton (at 20 Middle Street). 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 (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)