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Warneford Hospital
Hospital in England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Warneford Hospital is a hospital providing mental health services at Headington in east Oxford, England.[1] It is managed by the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust.
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History
The hospital opened as the Oxford Lunatic Asylum in July 1826.[2] It was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777–1838) and built of Headington stone.[3] The name commemorates the philanthropist Samuel Wilson Warneford.[4] It was renamed the Warneford Hospital in 1843[2] and extended by J.C. Buckler in 1852 and by William Wilkinson in 1877.[3]
The hospital originally charged fees for treatment of middle-class patients with a fund eventually being set up for the care of poor patients. Men and women were originally segregated on different sides of the hospital with this practice continuing into the 1950s.[5]
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Notable staff
- Anthony Storr, teaching post, 1974-84[6]
Notable patients
- Stephen Bernard, academic and writer[7]
- Jennifer Dawson, novelist[8]
- Elyn Saks, law professor[9]
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References
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