| Description Of Item | A press cutting from The Times about a meeting in the House of Lords held on 24 March 1862. The Revised Code of Education and the Lunacy Regulation Bill were discussed, with debate over the role of doctors in testifying insanity. The main contributors were the Earl of Shaftesbury (Anthony Ashley Cooper), Lord Cranworth (Robert Rolfe), Lord Chelmsford (Frederic Thesiger) and the Lord Chancellor (Richard Bethell). Daniel M'Naghten is mentioned. From the collection of Thomas Laycock. |