Modern English biography

LEGÉR, THÉODORE. _b._ Paris 1799; educ. Paris; M.D.; resided in Mexico, acquired and spent two fortunes; acted as a medical mesmeriser 1850; discovered the magnetism of the phrenological organs of the brain and established psychology as a mathematical science; lectured at Hungerford hall, London on phrenology 1851; gave séances and examined heads at 20 Gerrard st. Soho 1852; edited Higia Periódico de salud, por las Senores D. T. Leger y D. G. Villette No. 1–8. Mexico 1833; author of Considerations sur l’endurcissement du tissu cellulaire chez les nouveaux nés. Paris 1823; Animal magnetism or psychodunamy. New York 1846; The magnetoscope, the magnetoid characteristics and their relations to the organisation of man 1852. _d._ 20 Gerrard st. Soho, London 6 Oct. 1853. _J. Ashburner’s Notes on animal magnetism_ (1867) 57–81. LE GEYT, CHARLES JAMES (son of Philip Le Geyt, chaplain to duke of Kent, _d._ 1847). _b._ 1829; ed. Ex. coll. Oxf., B.A. 1853 and Magd. coll. M.A. 1855; V. of St. Matthias, Stoke Newington 1858 to death; author of Digging against the wells, a sermon at short services for business men 1866; Catholic ritual of the church in England 1867; Incense at the Magnificat not Mariolatry