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Title:

Donovan, Cornelius

Reference:

PERSONS/4/502

Date:

1820 - 1872

Level of Description:

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Institution:

Coventry Archives & Research Centre

Scope and Content:

This London phrenologist instructed George Eliot in organology. She attended his lectures in 1845. A regular visitor at Rosehill, Charles Bray's house in Coventry, Donovan was one of the intellectuals which formed the 'Rosehill Group'. See VCH, 'Warwickshire', vol. 8.

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