Clause 32 of the Act passed in 1878 was intended to protect the interests of the Royal Indian Asylum: no more than two acres of land was to be acquired compulsorily without the consent of the Secretary of State; the railway was to pass through the grounds of the Asylum in a cutting; a bridge and ...
The Royal Indian Asylum was closed in June 1892 and the remaining patients transferred to other institutions. The estate was sold to the Rothschild family for housing development for £31,000.
The Elm Grove estate at Ealing was purchased by the Secretary of State for India from Anna Eliza Perceval and her son Spencer Perceval for £24,500 in March 1870. Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt supervised the conversion of the house into a lunatic asylum for patients who had been sent home from India. Th...