Combe, George, brother of the preceding, born in Edinburgh; trained to the legal profession; like his brother, he became, under Spurzheim, a stanch phrenologist and advocate of phrenology; but his ablest and best-known work was “The Constitution of Man,” to the advocacy of the principles of which and their application, especially to education, he devoted his life; he married a daughter of the celebrated Mrs. Siddons (1788‒1858).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Combe, Andrew, M.D. * Combe, William