Dr James Cowles Prichard FRS
(1786-1848)

Doctor of Medicine, Fellow of the Royal Society, and ethnologist

Died aged c. 62

James Cowles Prichard, FRS (11 February 1786 – 23 December 1848) was a British physician and ethnologist with broad interests in physical anthropology and psychiatry. His influential Researches into the Physical History of Mankind touched upon the subject of evolution. From 1845, Prichard served as a Medical Commissioner in Lunacy. He also introduced the term "senile dementia".

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ceridwen on Geograph
Bristol, United Kingdom

James Cowles Prichard M.D. F.R.S Ethnologist lived here 1826-1845

Red Lodge, Bristol, United Kingdom where they lived (1826-1845)