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HALLIDAY, Andrew (1781-1839)

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Born: 1781

Died: 1839

Editorial Description

lunacy reformer; MD Edin 1806; domestic phys to Duke of Clarence; Knighted by George IV; author of Remarks on the Present State of the Lunatic Asylums (1808), and A General View of the Present State of Lunatics in Great Britain and Ireland (1828); advocated asylum inspectorate; consultant phys to Crichton Royal Inst, 1838-9; pres DUMFRIES PHREN SOC. (DNB)

Editorial Information

Identifier	495.
Type	Person
Source	Roger Cooter, Phrenology in the British Isles (1989)
PDF page	162
Printed page	157
Database ID	1496

Original Transcription

495. HALLIDAY, Andrew (1781-1839), lunacy reformer; MD Edin
1806; domestic phys to Duke of Clarence; Knighted by George IV;
author of Remarks on the Present State of the Lunatic Asylums
(1808), and A General View of the Present State of Lunatics in Great
Britain and Ireland (1828); advocated asylum inspectorate; consultant
phys to Crichton Royal Inst, 1838-9; pres DUMFRIES PHREN SOC.
(DNB)