7.2. CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF PARLIAMENTARY SOURCES
1754
1763
1773,
1774,
1800,
1801,
1805,
1806,
1807,
1808,
1812,
1813,
1814,
1815,
1816,
1817,
1818,
1819,
1827,
1828,
1829,
1830,
1831,
1832,
1833,
1834,
1835,
1836,
1837,
1838,
1839,
1840,
1841,
1842,
1843,
1844,
1845,
1846,
1847,
1848,
1849,
1850,
1851,
1852,
1853,
1855,
1856,
1858,
1859,
1861,
1861,
1867,
1868,
1870,
1872,
1874,
1875,
1876,
1877,
1880,
1882,
1883,
1884,
1885,
1886,
1892,
1895,
1905,
1912,
1957,
1966,
1971,
1973,
1975,
1976,
1977,
1980,
1981,
(1) All except Townshend Jnr had been members of the
Select
Committee.
"The office of Secretary of lunatics and idiots is one of antiquity, and
such secretary is a servant to the Lord Chancellor for the time being, and
is appointed by parol only, takes no oath of office, and is stated in the
Report below to be removable at pleasure:
(Shelford, L.
1847 pp 98-99)
Report of Commissioners appointed to make a survey of the different
Courts
in England and Wales, as to the Court of Chancery; ordered by the House
of
Commons to be printed, 20th February 1815. Bopcris:
a 1740 report printed 1815
-
another -
second
report
Also published in 1816: "Observations of the Physician (Dr
Monro) and
Apothecary (Mr Haslam) of
Bethlem
Hospital,
upon the evidence taken before
the Committee of the House of Commons for regulating
madhouses", H. Bryer:
London, 1816. 55 pages.
LORDS CALENDAR p.120. 26.6.1816. 1st reading - to be
printed. No
further proceeding.
[George Canning was Prime Minister from 10.4.1827 to 8.8.1827
John Singleton Copley,
Lyndhurst
Lord Chancellor 10.4.1827 to November 1830
Lansdowne
Home Secretary July 1827 to January 1828]
Hansard
13.6.1827
cols 1262-5. Debate on motion of Gordon for a
Select
Committee
to inquire into the treatment of pauper
lunatics in Middlesex, to consider the propriety of
extending the
provisions of the 1774 Madhouses Act to pauper lunatics,
consolidating all Acts relative to lunatics and lunatic
asylums, and
of making further provisions. Gordon, Spring Rice (Under Secretary
of State at
the Home Office 16.7.1827-
22.1.1828),
Alderman William
Thompson
(MP City of London),
Ridley
Colborne,
M.A.
Taylor, Mr
Estcourt and Sir F. Burdett
spoke.
JHC 13.6.1827
p.
556;
14.6.1827 p. 561; 19.6.1827 p. 578. Membership
of the
Select
Committee: Gordon,
Bourne
(Home Secretary),
M.A.
Taylor,
(Middlesex
JP), Wynn, Thomas Wood (Middlesex
JP), Althorpe (See h.10 ###),
Geo.
Dawson
(Under Secretary of State
at the
Home Office 18.1.1822-
30.4.1827), (Ridley) Colborne, (Sir John) Newport,
Thompson (MP
City of London),
Pallmer,
Rice
(Under Secretary of State at the Home Office
16.7.1827-22.1.1828),
(John Cam.) Hobhouse (Westminster MP), Charles Wood,
Calthorpe
(probably
H2),
G.H.
Rose,
(William)) Ord, (John Nicholas)
Fazakerley, (Charles Edmund) Rumbold, Stuart Wortley,
Ashley,
Perceval
(Under Secretary of State at the Home Office 30.4.1827 to
16.7.1827),
Somerset,
Lennard,
Villiers,
Francis
Baring, (E.)
Protheroe,
Wodehouse, Henry H. Liddell. Added 16.6.1827: Peter
Du Cane,
Added 19.6.1827:
Byng.
1827 SCHC: Report from the Select Committee
on Pauper
Lunatics in
the County of Middlesex and on Lunatic Asylums
To be
printed
29.6.1827. PP 1826-7
(557) Vol.6, pp 75-260.
[Note: a double page reference, 41/116, in 2.6.1d, indicates
double
numbering of pages]
JHC
29.6.1827 p.
605:
Report delivered by Gordon.
[Parliament prorogued 2.7.1827]
[Viscount Goderich Prime Minister September 1827 to 8.1.1828.
Parliament
not in session during whole period]
Poor Law Commission. Printed Directions on Lunatics in
Workhouses
5.2.1842, quoted Metropolitan Commission's 1844 report
pp 95-96.