Cornelius Donovan
| Dr Cornelius Donovan | |||||||||||
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| Born | 1820 | ||||||||||
| Died | 1872 | ||||||||||
| Residence |
111 Strand [1862] 106 Strand [1869] | ||||||||||
| Occupation | phrenologist | ||||||||||
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ASL 12 may 1863: Dr C. Donovan was nominated as a candidate for election and was not elected.
proposed 1867.11.05
1867.11.19 The name of Dr Donovan having been put for election as an Ordinary Member, a ballot was taken when the votes being equal the chairman gave the casting votes against the election. [supports Hyde Clark see JASL vol. 7 (1869) p. xvi]
proposed as 1868.01.22
Notes From Elsewhere
Donovan, Cornelius (c. 1820-72)
Cornelius Donovan was a London based "Professional Phrenologist, Doctor of philosophy, [and] Fellow of the Ethnological Society" from the early 1840s to the 1870s. Very little biographical material is known about Donovan. In February 1840 he founded the London School of Phrenology (later the London Phrenological Institute) in the Strand and later on Trafalgar Square. He also became a member of the Phrenological Association in 1840. Donovan was a practical phrenologist in that he spent most of his phrenological efforts in itinerant lecturing and reading heads. He made plaster casts and offered courses of nine private lectures for 3 guineas, 5 guineas for two persons taking the lessons together, and 6 guineas for three persons. He lectured throughout England especially in the Southeast and the Midlands and also in Scotland and Ireland. For example he gave special instruction to a phrenology class at the Western Literary Institute, Leicester Square, London, in 1842. In 1843 he gave a course of four lectures in Leicester. In 1849 he debated phrenology with the evangelical Congregationalist clergyman Brewin Grant in Birmingham.
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House Publications
ESL On empirical and scientific physiognomy as applied to the study of the races of man and individuals
Craniology and phrenology in relation to ethnology