Fowler was named for Orson Squire Fowler, a phrenologist who founded the town. Andrew Combe (27 October 17979 August 1847) was a Scottish physician and phrenologist. Joseph Millot Severn was an English writer, historian, and phrenologist born in Codnor, Derbyshire. He comes to the island disguised as a traveling showman, phrenologist, hypnotist, and palmist. Another important scholar was Luigi Ferrarese, the leading Italian phrenologist. Among those buried at the church was William Bally, a Swiss sculptor and phrenologist. It was founded by Murat, and for a time led by the phrenologist Luigi Ferrarese. Severn was born in 1860 and worked as a phrenologist in Brighton. He took up several jobs, including printer, film exhibitor, hygienist and phrenologist. Pettigrew had the head examined by a phrenologist.