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Ham and Petersham – Cassel Hospital
1763 - Elliot Bishop buys the 8-acre estate in the south east corner of Ham Common (the site of the future Cassel Hospital), consisting two houses, one a 17th century farmhouse and the other a substantial ‘messuage with two coach houses’. The estate then changes hands no fewer than eight times within 100 years.
1862 - The future Cassel Hospital estate, now with a single mansion, is leased for nine years to HRH Robert Philippe, Duc de Chartres, exiled from France along with his grandfather, King Louis Philippe
1879 - The future Cassel Hospital buildings are occupied by West Heath School for young ladies – some of its classes being attended by Princess May (the future Queen Mary), while living at White Lodge, Richmond Park.
1947 - The Cassel Foundation (founded by Sir Ernest Cassel, grandfather of the Countess Mountbatten) establishes the Cassel Hospital for functional nervous disorders at Ham Common.
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Sources — for this page Pritchard, 36-40
Contributors — to this page DB (RLHS)
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