Idiots and Imbeciles: Royal Commission Appointed: It is officially announced that the King, on the recommendation of the Home Secretary, has appointed a Royal Commission to consider the existing methods of dealing with idiots and epileptics, and with imbecile, feeble-minded or defective persons not certified under the Lunacy Laws; and, in view of the hardship or danger resulting to such persons and the community from insufficient provision for their care, training, and control, to report as to the amendments in the law of other measures which should be adopted in the matter, due regard being bad to the expense involved in any such proposals, and to the best means of securing economy therein. The commission is constituted as follows: The Marquis of Bath (chairman). Mr. William Patrick Byrne, C.B. Mr. Charles Hobhouse, M.P. Mr. Frederick Needham, M.D. Mr. Henry David Greene, K.C., M.P. Mr. Charles E. H. Chadwick-Healey, K.C. Rev. Harold Nelson Burden, Mr. Willoughby H. Dickinson. Mr. Charles Stewart Loch, and Mrs. Pinsent.
[see related: Birmingham Mail: Thursday 1st September 1904 … includes … Mrs. Pinsent was appointed as a co-opted member of the Education Committee and has been chairman of the Special Schools Sub-Committee. No member of the committee has a more complete knowledge of the subject than Mrs. Pinsent as she has made the training of the mentally deficient a study for several years. …
[see similar Birmingham Mail: Thursday 1st September 1904]
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GRO0245 Devonport: Ellen Frances Parker: 1866 – 1949