Earls Court House
Earls Court House was a manor house west of London in Kensington . The house was demolished in 1886 to make way for tenement houses. Part of the garden has been preserved in Barkston Gardens in Earls Court.
John Hunter lived in the house and bought the house in 1765. He was followed by John Hanson , Lord Byron's attorney , and a mistress of the Duke of Richmond . In 1829 it was bought by Robert Gunter , of the Gunter family who already owned large estates in Earls Court.
From 1832 to 1878 it served as a private sanatorium for women with mental illness. At the time of its existence there were about 30 patients in the house. Mary Bradbury was the first operator . From 1863 Robert Gardiner Hill was the director of the institution, who was one of the pioneers of the non-restraint movement, which relies on treatment without straitjackets. Hill died in the house in 1878.
Remarks
- ↑ a b "Shaping West London. An Illustrated Guide to the History of Earls Court" as pdf ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The 1832 Madhouse Act and the Metropolitan Commission in Lunacy from 1832
literature
- A Prospectus of Earls Court House, Old Brompton: Mrs. Bradbury's Establishment for the care and recovery of ladies, labor and affections of the mind. With plan and illustrations. Spottiswoode, 1836.
- The Homes Of The Hunters. In: The British Medical Journal. Vol. 1, No. 3502, 1928, pp. 276-277.