Conolly, John (1794–1866), physician and alienist, was born at his grandmother's house in Market Rasen, Lincolnshire, on 27 May 1794, the second of three sons of Jonathon Conolly, an impecunious Anglo-Irish gentleman of no fixed pursuits, and of his wife, Dorothy Tennyson (1761–1816)...
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Conolly, John (1794–1866), physician and alienist
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Down, John Langdon Haydon Langdon- (1828–1896), physician and expert in mental science
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revised by Mathew Thomson
Down, John Langdon Haydon Langdon- (1828–1896), physician and expert in mental science, was born in Torpoint, Cornwall, on 18 November 1828, the youngest of seven children (three daughters and four sons) of Joseph Almond Down (d. 1853), apothecary, and his wife, Hanna Haydon...
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Haslam, John (bap. 1764, d. 1844), physician and specialist in insanity
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Haslam, John (bap. 1764, d. 1844), physician and specialist in insanity, was baptized at St John Zachary, London, on 12 February 1764, the son of John Haslam (1737–1829), and his wife, Mary. Little is known of Haslam's early life. After serving a period of apprenticeship he gained clinical experience as a student and subsequently as a house surgeon at ...
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Tuke, Daniel Hack (1827–1895), physician and writer on psychological medicine
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Tuke, Daniel Hack (1827–1895), physician and writer on psychological medicine, was born on 19 April 1827 at St Lawrence Street, York, the youngest of the thirteen children of Samuel Tuke (1784–1857), asylum reformer and Quaker philanthropist, and his wife, Priscilla (1784–1827), daughter of ...
