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A History of the County of Gloucester
… from 1841. 27 In the early 1880s the county built an asylum in the south of Barnwood near Coney Hill. 28 Nine … and J. H. Dowling. 96 The subscribers to the Gloucester asylum bought the house, landscaped gardens, and 48 a. in 1858 and converted the house as a private asylum, later known as Barnwood House Hospital. The …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… societies for the relief of women during childbirth; an asylum for the support of young females, and for instructing … and destitute females; an establishment for aged, and an asylum for young, females; a penitentiary, with a chapel; and …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… 6. 8. It had the privilege of sanctuary, and afforded an asylum to Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI., after the …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… places, and contains a population of 31,767. The county lunatic asylum, a handsome brick building on the road to Ampthill, …
Benson (Including Fifield, Preston, Crownmarsh, Roke)
A History of the County of Oxford: Volume 18, Benson, Ewelme, and the Chilterns (Ewelme Hundred)
… retained it until 1814 when Robert Hucks (declared a lunatic in 1792) was succeeded by his niece Ann Noyes (d. …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are several infant, Sunday, and other schools. A pauper lunatic house was erected in 1813, and a dispensary …
Old and New London
… by a codicil altered to Mr. Grose); all the residue to the Asylum for Young Girls, in Lambeth (supposed to be about …
A Topographical Dictionary of Scotland
… about 150 boys, of whom 40 are also clothed. A pauper lunatic house was erected in 1813, and a dispensary was … Mary, who occasionally visited his castle, and made it an asylum, before the commencement of her long series of …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… a citizen of London, and now converted into a private lunatic asylum. The houses in general are meanly built of brick, and … of one entire stone, with a Latin inscription offering an asylum to all criminals who should flee to this sanctuary; …
Survey of London
… which empowered Justices of the Peace to erect County Lunatic Asylums. It was amended by an Act of similar title in …