Joseph Millott Severn

Joseph Millot Severn (1860-1942) 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 (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)