Commissioners in Lunacy
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The Commissioners in Lunacy or Lunacy Commission were a UK public body established by the Lunacy Act 1845 to oversee asylums and the welfare of mentally ill people. It succeeded the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy.
[edit] Commissioners
Incomplete list:
- Thomas Turner (1845-1854)
- Henry Herbert Southey (1845-1848)
- James Cowles Prichard (1845-1848)
- Bryan Procter (1845-1860)
- Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Chair (1845-1885)
- Robert Vernon, 1st Baron Lyveden (1845-1860)
- Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset (1845-1852)
- ...
[edit] External links
- Web pages by Andrew Roberts at Middlesex University:
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