James Cowles Prichard
1786–1848
Physician and ethnologist. MD, Edinburgh, 1808. Studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, and St John’s and Trinity Colleges, Oxford. Physician, Bristol Infirmary, until 1843. In Researches into the physical history of man (1813), maintained that human races were varieties of one species. A commissioner of lunacy in London, 1845. FRS 1827.
Sources
DSB
ODNB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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