| Authorised form of name | Bucknill; Sir; John Charles (1817 - 1897) |
| Dates | 1817 - 1897 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England |
| Date of birth | 25 December 1817 |
| Place of death | Bournemouth |
| Date of death | 19 July 1897 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Clifton-on-Dunsmore, near Rugby |
| Occupation | Psychiatrist |
| Activity | Education:
Rugby School; Market Bosworth Grammar School; University College, London. MD
Career:
Appointed Superintendent, Devon county Lunatic Asylum (1844); Chancery Visitor of Lunatics (1862). Subsequently returned to private practice in London and founded the journal 'Brain'.
Freemason, initiated 8 March 1877 in the Lodge of Friendship No 6, London
Honours:
Kt 1894
Memberships:
MRCS (1840); LRCP (1853); FRCP (1859); Physiological Society, Paris (Honorary)
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 07/06/1866 |
| PublishedWorks | 'A Manual of Psychological Medicine' 1858 (first British textbook on insanity) |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1905 vol 75 pp 130-131 signed by T C A
Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 'Freemasons and the Royal Society: Alphabetical List of Fellows of the Royal Society who were Freemasons' 2010 page 12 |
| Code | NA6273 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| IM/Maull/000643 | Bucknill, Sir John Charles | nd |
| NLB/9/499 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 29 May 1894 |
| NLB/15/232 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 21 July 1897 |
| EC/1866/02 | Bucknill, Sir John Charles: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |