John Epps

Dr John Epps (15 February 1805 – 12 February 1869) was an English physician, phrenologist and homeopath. He was also a political activist, known as a champion of radical causes on which he preached, lectured and wrote in periodicals. Life Early years and education Epps, the eldest son of John Epps (see Epps family), was born into a Calvinist family in Sevenoaks, Kent on 15 February 1805. George Napoleon Epps was his half-brother. Epps became disillusioned with the religious atmosphere of his childhood. After education at a dissenting academy and then Mill Hill School (near Hendon), he served an apprenticeship to an apothecary of the name of Dury or Durie.