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'''Pembroke House''' was a Lunatic Asylum established by the [[East India Company|EIC]] in Hackney in London from 1818 to 1870. Then it moved to Ealing in west London until closure in 1892. | '''Pembroke House''' was a Lunatic Asylum established by the [[East India Company|EIC]] in Hackney in London from 1818 to 1870. Then it moved to Ealing in west London until closure in 1892. | ||
Records from 1830 are held in British Library, London, under ref IOR/K/2. For Further information see [https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/d31006ff-3527-438e-88ff-abcca784ad99?fbclid=IwAR2zLnKovYJBF2r7OY8gTuXzvjPvhAqIUUJGBN5IGu1uvS-RwHLhD4hWCAE Discovery catalogue of UK National Archives] | |||
== FIBIS resources == | == FIBIS resources == | ||
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Pembroke House was a Lunatic Asylum established by the EIC in Hackney in London from 1818 to 1870. Then it moved to Ealing in west London until closure in 1892. Records from 1830 are held in British Library, London, under ref IOR/K/2. For Further information see Discovery catalogue of UK National Archives
FIBIS resources
"Lost and Found-the records of Pembroke House" by Sylvia Dibbs FIBIS Journal Number 28 (Autumn 2012) pages 41-46 . Captain John Dibbs was a patient at the Lunatic Asylum at Bhowanipur in 1836 and was admitted to Pembroke House, the lunatic asylum run by the East India Company for its afflicted personnel, in Hackney London in 1837.