A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Combe, George
Combe, George (1788-1858).—Writer on phrenology and education, b. in Edin., where for some time he practised as a lawyer. Latterly, however, he devoted himself to the promotion of Phrenology, and of his views on education, for which he in 1848 founded a school. His chief work was The Constitution of Man (1828).