The Warneford Hospital is a hospital providing mental health services at

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in east

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. It is managed by the

Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust is an NHS foundation trust that provides physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and North East Somerset. Its services are de ...

History

The hospital opened as the Oxford Lunatic Asylum in July 1826. It was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777–1838) and built of

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. The name commemorates the philanthropist

Samuel Wilson Warneford Samuel Wilson Warneford (1763 – 11 January 1855) was an astute and eccentric English cleric and philanthropist from an old but generally impoverished family. He married into money, as his father had done, and thereafter spent his life trying t ...

. It was renamed the ''Warneford Hospital'' in 1843 and extended by J.C. Buckler in 1852 and by William Wilkinson in 1877. The hospital originally charged fees for treatment of middle-class patients with a fund eventually being set up for the care of poor patients. Men and women were originally segregated on different sides of the hospital with this practice continuing into the 1950s.

Notable staff

Anthony Storr Anthony Storr (18 May 1920 – 17 March 2001) was an English psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and author. Background and education Born in London, Storr was educated at Winchester College, Christ's College, Cambridge, and Westminster Hospital. He w ...

, teaching post, 1974-84

Notable patients

Stephen Bernard Stephen Jarrod Bernard FSA FRSA FRHistS FHEA (born 1975) is an Academic Visitor at the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Oxford and a member of University College. A prize-winning essayist, editor, and bibliographer, he ...

, academic and writer * Jennifer Dawson, novelist *

Elyn Saks Elyn R. Saks is associate dean and Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences at the University of Southern California Gould Law School, an expert in mental health law, and a MacArthur Foundation Fell ...

, law professor

References

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History

Notable staff

Notable patients

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