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Board Of Control For Lunacy And Mental Deficiency
The Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency was a body overseeing the treatment of the mentally ill in England and Wales. It was created by the 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 who had responsibility for investigating breaches of care and integrity. The Board was transferred to the Ministry of Health by the Ministry of Health Act 1919, and reorganised in 1930. The Board consisted of a Chairman, two Senior Medical Commissioners, one Senior Legal Commissioner, six Commissioners including lawyers and doctors, six Inspectors and administrative staff. By law, at least one of these had to be a woman. The Commissioners of the Board travelled around England and Wales ensuring that those detained under mental health legislation were legally in custody, their care was appropriate, and moneys and other properties owned by patients were not being misused or s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mental Disorder
A mental disorder, also referred to as a mental illness or psychiatric disorder, is a behavioral or mental pattern that causes significant distress or impairment of personal functioning. Such features may be persistent, relapsing and remitting, or occur as single episodes. Many disorders have been described, with signs and symptoms that vary widely between specific disorders. Such disorders may be diagnosed by a mental health professional, usually a clinical psychologist or psychiatrist. The causes of mental disorders are often unclear. Theories may incorporate findings from a range of fields. Mental disorders are usually defined by a combination of how a person behaves, feels, perceives, or thinks. This may be associated with particular regions or functions of the brain, often in a social context. A mental disorder is one aspect of mental health. Cultural and religious beliefs, as well as social norms, should be taken into account when making a diagnosis. Services are b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Dendy
Mary Dendy (28 January 1855 – 9 May 1933) was a promoter of residential schools for mentally handicapped people, i.e. institutionalisation. Dendy was the driving force that established a colony for the "feeble-minded". Dendy believed in separate development to avoid crime and these people passing their problems on to their children. She joined the Eugenics Education Society. Life Dendy was born in 1855 in Bryn Celyn, Llangoed in north Wales. She was the daughter of John Dendy, Unitarian minister, and his wife Sarah Beard (1831–1922), eldest daughter of John Relly Beard. Her sister was the social reformer Helen Bosanquet and her brother was the biologist Arthur Dendy (1865–1925). She was home educated, completing her education with a year at Bedford College, London. She started her work at Collyhurst Recreation Rooms, Manchester and with the Lancashire and Cheshire Women's Liberal Association and Suffrage Association. She was invited to sit on the Manchester School Board in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Department Of Health And Social Care
The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is a department of His Majesty's Government responsible for government policy on health and adult social care matters in England, along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish Government, Welsh Government or Northern Ireland Executive. It oversees the English National Health Service (NHS). The department is led by the secretary of state for health and social care with three ministers of state and three parliamentary under-secretaries of state. The department develops policies and guidelines to improve the quality of care and to meet patient expectations. It carries out some of its work through arms-length bodies (ALBs), including executive non-departmental public bodies such as NHS England and the NHS Digital, and executive agencies such as the UK Health Security Agency and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). The DHSC also manages the work of the Nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Isabel Grace Hood Wilson
Isabel Grace Hood Wilson CBE FRCP (6 September 1895 – 8 December 1982) was a Scottish psychiatrist, who was Principal Medical Officer of the Ministry of Health. Biography Isabel Grace Hood Wilson was born on 6 September 1895 in Lasswade, Scotland. Her parents were Susan Charlotte Sandeman and George Robert Wilson, a physician and psychiatrist. She studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating in 1921 with an MB ChB, and MD in 1926. In 1931, Wilson was appointed as a Commissioner of The Board of Control, holding the position until 1948. From 1949 to 1960 she was a Senior Commissioner, after which the Board was abolished and her position was changed to the Principal Medical Officer, Ministry of Health. She became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is a British professional membership body dedicated to improving the practice of medicine, chiefly through the accreditation of physicians by examination. Founde ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Rees-Thomas
William Rees-Thomas CB FRCP FRSM (15 June 1887 – 13 April 1978) was a Welsh psychiatrist. He was Medical Senior Commissioner for the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency. Born in Senny, Breconshire, he was educated at County School, Brecon and Cardiff University. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1913 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1933. He was awarded the Alfred Sheen Prize, 1906; Alfred Hughes Memorial Medal, 1907; Llewelyn Prize, 1909; Murchison Scholar (RCP), 1912; Gaskell Prize and gold medal. During the First World war he served in the Royal Army Medical Corps He was appointed to the Board of Control in 1931, replacing Arthur Rotherham as Medical Senior Commissioner He was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in 1950 He married Muriel Hodgson Jones in 1917; they had a son Frederick Douglas Rees-Thomas (1920–1995), and daughter Aelwyn Minette (1922–2012). He was widowed in 1934. In 1948 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Pinsent
Dame Ellen Frances Pinsent DBE (''née'' Parker; 26 March 1866 – 10 October 1949) was a British mental health worker, and first female member of the Birmingham City Council. Family Ellen Frances Parker was born in Claxby, Lincolnshire, the daughter of the Rev. Richard Parker and his second wife, Elizabeth Coffin. Her brother Robert Parker was a barrister and a chancery judge. In 1888, she married Hume Chancellor Pinsent (1857–1920), a relative of the philosopher David Hume, and they had three children. Their two sons, David Hume Pinsent and Richard Parker Pinsent, were killed in the First World War, and their daughter, Hester, a mental health worker, married the Nobel-prize winner Edgar Douglas Adrian, a peer. Lady Hester Adrian would be named a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. Career Pinsent chaired the Special School Sub-Committee of the Birmingham Schools Committee from 1901 to 1913. In 1904, she was the sole female member of the Commission on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bedford Pierce
Bedford Pierce (21 May 1861 – 8 July 1932) was an English medical doctor, a Commissioner to the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency and Consulting Physician to The Retreat, York. Pierce was born in Manchester to Edmund Kell Pierce and Elizabeth Tyler. Aged 14, after completing his school studies at the Friends’ School, Croydon, he started working at a pharmaceutical firm in London. He later enrolled to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where he won several scholarships and prizes before receiving his M.B. degree in 1888. In 1890 he won the Murchison Scholarship of the Royal College of Physicians. He then worked as physician at St. Bartholomew's, Bethlem Royal Hospital and the Edinburgh Royal Asylum, Morningside, and in 1892 became medical superintendent at the Retreat, York. There he built a Nurses Home (1898) and spent much effort on improving the training and status of mental nurses. In parallel, he taught mental diseases at Leeds University from 1908 to 1911 and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence George Brock
Sir Laurence George Brock CB (7 May 1879 – 29 April 1949) was a British civil servant. He was chairman of the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency from 1928 to 1945. Brock was born in Islington, London to George William Frederick Brock, a clerk, and Eliza Jane Wilkins. His younger sister, Dorothy Brock, was a headmistress of the Mary Datchelor School, Prior to becoming chairman of the Board of Control, Brock served as private secretary to the Financial Secretary to the Admiralty (1905–12), assistant secretary to the National Health Insurance Commission (1912–16), assistant secretary to the Ministry of Health (1919–25), and principal assistant secretary of the Board of Control (1925–28). He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in 1919 and was knighted in 1935. He was also a Chevalier of the Order of the Crown of Italy The Order of the Crown of Italy ( it, Ordine della Corona d'Italia, italic=no or OCI) was founded as a national order i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Frederick Willis
Sir Frederick Willis CB KBE (16 March 1863 - 17 June 1946) was an English lawyer and civil servant.The Times, Wednesday, Jun 19, 1946; pg. 7; Issue 50481; col E Sir Frederick Willis He was made CB in 1914 and KBE in 1920. He was chairman of the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency The Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency was a body overseeing the treatment of the mentally ill in England and Wales. It was created by the Mental Deficiency Act 1913 to replace the Commissioners in Lunacy, under the Home Office howe ... 1921-1928. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Willis, Frederick, Sir 1863 births 1946 deaths Companions of the Order of the Bath ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Cunyngham Brown
Robert Cunyngham Brown (1867 – 7 October 1945) was a British psychologist and medical administrator. He was a commissioner of the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency The Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency was a body overseeing the treatment of the mentally ill in England and Wales. It was created by the Mental Deficiency Act 1913 to replace the Commissioners in Lunacy, under the Home Office howe ....The Times, Friday, Oct 22, 1926; pg. 18; Issue 44409; col D References 1867 births 1945 deaths British psychologists Commanders of the Order of the British Empire {{UK-psychologist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Darwin
Ruth Frances Darwin CBE (20 August 1883 – 15 October 1972) was Commissioner of the Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency and an advocate of eugenics. Career Darwin was appointed to the Board of Control, as an unpaid member, in 1921, replacing Ellen Pinsent.''The Times'', Tuesday, 19 April 1921; pg. 4; Issue 42698; col F She retired from the Board of Control in 1949. In 1929, with money from the estate of her father who had died in 1928, she founded the Darwin TrustNot to be confused with the modern-day Charles Darwin Trust to foster research into "mental defect, disease or disorder". In 1932 she was appointed to the Brock Committee (a Parliamentary committee chaired by Sir Laurence Brock) that produced the Brock Report that called for the forced sterilisation of " mental defectives". She was appointed a CBE in 1938. Family connections Darwin was the middle child and elder daughter of Sir Horace Darwin, through whom she was a granddaughter of the naturalis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Welsh Braithwaite
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
