James Cowles Prichard was a British medical doctor and ethnologist with broad interests in physical anthropology and psychiatry. His influential Researches into the Physical History of Mankind touched upon the subject of evolution. From 1845, Prichard served as a Medical Commissioner in Lunacy. He also introduced the term "senile dementia".
- Occupation
- anthropologist, linguist, physician, ethnologist
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Born
- February 11, 1786
- Died
- December 23, 1848
