Dr Pownall was a surgeon, asylum proprietor and one-time mayor of Calne who had bouts of insanity. He had two serious bouts of violence when insane, and later murdered a servant, Louisa Cook, after his discharge from Northwoods Asylum as recovered. He was tried for murder and ended up in Broadmoor, where he died in 1882. There are extensive contemporary public accounts of the case, but detailed examination of the roles of the local chief magistrate, Purnell Barnsby Purnell, and Pownall’s brother-in-law and asylum doctor, Dr Ogilvie, reveals severe tensions that adversely influenced events. Everyone defended themselves, and few lessons were learned about cooperation.
...MoreSimilar Citations
Article
Dan Degerman;
(2019)
‘Am I mad?’: the Windham case and Victorian resistance to psychiatry
(/isis/citation/CBB373188237/)
Article
Catherine Cox;
Hilary Marland;
(2018)
Broken Minds and Beaten Bodies: Cultures of Harm and the Management of Mental Illness in Mid- to Late Nineteenth-century English and Irish Prisons
(/isis/citation/CBB458369956/)
Book
Haber, Carole;
(2013)
The Trials of Laura Fair: Sex, Murder, and Insanity in the Victorian West
(/isis/citation/CBB001420198/)
Article
Jade Shepherd;
(2016)
‘I am not very well I feel nearly mad when I think of you’: Male Jealousy, Murder and Broadmoor in Late-Victorian Britain
(/isis/citation/CBB494287552/)
Article
Bryden, D. J.;
(2013)
The Scientific Instrument Trade in Georgian London: Gleanings from Old Bailey Trials
(/isis/citation/CBB001320526/)
Article
Fatih Artvinli;
(2018)
‘Pinel of Istanbul’: Dr Luigi Mongeri (1815–82) and the birth of modern psychiatry in the Ottoman Empire
(/isis/citation/CBB442010551/)
Article
Bühler, Karl-Ernst;
Heim, Gerhard;
(2010)
Ätiologie, Pathogenese und Therapie der dissoziativen und Konversionsstörungen (Hysterien) nach Pierre Janet
(/isis/citation/CBB001032258/)
Book
Diana Peschier;
(2019)
Lost Souls: Women, Religion and Mental Illness in the Victorian Asylum
(/isis/citation/CBB291963494/)
Thesis
Marinski, Deborah R.;
(2006)
Unfortunate Minds: Mental Insanity in Ohio, 1883--1909
(/isis/citation/CBB001561679/)
Article
Theriot, Nancy M.;
(2001)
Negotiating illness: Doctors, patients, and families in the nineteenth century
(/isis/citation/CBB000100642/)
Article
Gründler, Jens;
(2012)
Lebensläufe nach der Entlassung aus einer psychiatrischen Anstalt, Glasgow 1875--1921
(/isis/citation/CBB001421895/)
Article
Blom, Jan Dirk;
(2014)
When Doctors Cry Wolf: A Systematic Review of the Literature on Clinical Lycanthropy
(/isis/citation/CBB001214404/)
Article
Patterson, Richard;
(2007)
Dr. Charles Thomas Jackson's (1805--80) Life after Death: The 20th Century Mythology
(/isis/citation/CBB000831671/)
Article
Tomkins, Alannah;
(2012)
Mad Doctors? The Significance of Medical Practitioners Admitted as Patients to the First English County Asylums up to 1890
(/isis/citation/CBB001251921/)
Book
Melling, Joseph;
Forsythe, Bill;
(2006)
The Politics of Madness: The State, Insanity and Society in England, 1845--1914
(/isis/citation/CBB000774000/)
Book
Smith, Leonard;
(2007)
Lunatic Hospitals in Georgian England, 1750--1830
(/isis/citation/CBB000773994/)
Article
Smith, Leonard;
(2008)
A Gentleman's Mad-doctor in Georgian England: Edward Long Fox and Brislington House
(/isis/citation/CBB000950364/)
Article
Wallis, Jennifer;
(2013)
The Bones of the Insane
(/isis/citation/CBB001320330/)
Essay Review
Armstrong, David;
(2002)
The History of British General Practice
(/isis/citation/CBB000200391/)
Article
Møllerhøj, Jette;
(2009)
Encountering Hysteria: Doctors' and Patients' Perspectives on Hysteria in Denmark, 1875--1918
(/isis/citation/CBB000932516/)
Be the first to comment!