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Container Reference (shelfmark) IOR/L/L/2/1708-1733

1. IOR/L/L/2/1708-1714

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1708-1714
Title:
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1812-1870
Extent:
7 files

2. IOR/L/L/2/1715-1720

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1715-1720
Title:
Scope & Content:
Conveyance of triangular piece of land forming part of Ealing Common:
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1874-1876
Extent:
6 files

3. IOR/L/L/2/1721-1725

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1721-1725
Title:
Hounslow and Metropolitan Railway
Scope & Content:
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 ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1878-1881
Extent:
5 files

4. IOR/L/L/2/1726-1733

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/L/L/2/1726-1733
Title:
Sale of Elm Grove Estate
Scope & Content:
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.
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1890-1891
Extent:
8 files

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