mentally ill people in England and Wales. It succeeded the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy. The predecessors of the Commissioners in Lunacy were the Metropolitan...
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The Commissioners in Lunacy for Ireland or Lunacy Commission for Ireland were a public body established by the Lunacy (Ireland) Act 1821 to oversee asylums...
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commission from its founding in 1845 until his death in 1885. The Lunacy Commission was made up of eleven Metropolitan Commissioners. The commission was monumental...
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Board of Commissioners in Lunacy for Scotland was established in 1857 by the Lunacy (Scotland) Act 1857. There were two Commissioners of Lunacy each paid...
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Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury (category Commissioners in Lunacy)
Shaftesbury and other lunacy commissioners although it failed. In May, Shaftesbury spoke in the Lords against a motion declaring the lunacy laws unsatisfactory...
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Bryan Procter (category Commissioners in Lunacy)
metropolitan commissioner of lunacy—an appointment annually renewed until his election as one of the Commissioners in Lunacy constituted by the Lunacy Act 1845...
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Lunatic (category Insanity in law)
diseases. In the jurisdiction of England and Wales, the Madhouses Act 1774 originated what later became Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy, under the...
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Holloway Sanatorium (category Hospital buildings completed in 1885)
fortune on a single building and in a single benefaction. In 1872 that Holloway met with the Commissioners in Lunacy, who entered warmly into his plans...
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Lunatic asylum (section Trade in lunacy)
filthy conditions the inmates lived in. However, it was not until 1828 that the newly appointed Commissioners in Lunacy were empowered to license and supervise...
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Mental Deficiency Act 1913 to replace the Commissioners in Lunacy, under the Home Office however it was independent in that it reported to the Lord Chancellor...
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