Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,717 pages of information and 247,131 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Wonford House Hospital for the Insane, Exeter

From Graces Guide
1897.
c.1912. Wonford Hospital.
c.1933. Wonford Hospital.[1]

of Exeter

Replacement for St. Thomas Hospital for Lunatics

1891 Peter Maury Deas (age 49 born Scotland), Duty Registrar. With his wife and five children. Three officers. Gardener and family. 58 servants / staff. 67 female and 47 male - Total of 114 inmates.[2]

1869 Opened. Housed 120 inmates. Architect was W. F. Cross and G. M. Cummings.[3]

1914 Held 117 inmates.

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Sources of Information

  1. Britain from above
  2. 1891 Census
  3. Exeter and Plymouth Gazette Daily Telegrams - Thursday 08 July 1869