Commissioners in Lunacy

The Commissioners in Lunacy or Lunacy Commission were a UK public body established by the Lunacy Act 1845 to oversee asylums and the welfare of mentally ill people. It succeeded the Metropolitan Commissioners in Lunacy.

Commissioners
Incomplete list:
 * Thomas Turner (1845-1854)
 * Henry Herbert Southey (1845-1848)
 * James Cowles Prichard (1845-1848)
 * Bryan Procter (1845-1860)
 * Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury, Chair (1845-1885)
 * Robert Vernon, 1st Baron Lyveden (1845-1860)
 * Edward Seymour, 12th Duke of Somerset (1845-1852)