18-505: Murthly Hospital , previously known as Murthly Asylum , Perth District Asylum and Perth and District Mental Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in Murthly , Perthshire which operated for 120 years. The facility opened as Perthshire's district asylum to patients on 1 April 1864 to treat the county's 'pauper lunatics', and was the second district asylum in Scotland. It was built as a result of
36-649: A Military Psychiatric Hospital from 1917 to 1919, while its civilian patients were sent to other hospitals. At one point the complex included its own cemetery and a tramway linked it to Murthly railway station . By 1964 it was being run by the Board of Management for the Murray Royal & Murthly Hospitals. Training in nursing was carried out at the hospital, with the Murray and Murthly Hospitals Group Training School merging into Perth College of Nursing and Midwifery in 1969. After
54-626: A certain series of heirs. The duke and duchess had also a grant of an annuity of £2,000 for their lives. Atholl was chosen a Scottish representative peer in succession to the Earl of Sutherland , who died 21 August 1764, and he was reelected in 1768. In 1767, he was invested with the Order of the Thistle . He was Grand Master of the Ancient Grand Lodge of England from 1771 until 1774, and Grand Master of
72-502: Is a village in Perth and Kinross , Scotland. It lies on the south bank of the River Tay , 5 miles (8 kilometres) southeast of Dunkeld , and 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles (15 kilometres) north of Perth . Perth District Asylum, later known as Murthly Hospital , was opened in the village on 1 April 1864 for 'pauper lunatics'. It was the second district asylum to be built in Scotland under the terms of
90-632: The Lunacy (Scotland) Act 1857 which created district boards with the power to found and run publicly funded asylums for patients who could not afford the fees charged by private asylums. Its location was remote, although the Highland Railway 's mainline was relatively nearby. Rural locations were often chosen for such hospitals due to a belief that fresh air and separation from factors likely to cause anxiety would aid recovery. By July of its opening year it already had 172 patients. The original superintendent of
108-549: The Lunacy (Scotland) Act 1857 . It closed in 1984 and was later demolished. The village has a stone circle , in the former grounds of the hospital. The village formerly had a railway station on the Perth and Dunkeld Railway , which closed in 1965. Around 1770, the Hermitage Bridge at the nearby Hermitage was built by order of John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl , presumably to gain access across to some lands leased from Sir John Stewart of Murthly, as well as assisting with
126-604: The British government for the revestment of the suzerainty back to the British crown; and in an act of parliament, the Isle of Man Purchase Act 1765 , was passed to give effect to a contract between the lords of the Treasury and the Duke and Duchess of Atholl for the purchase of the sovereignty of Mann and its dependencies for £70,000, the duke and duchess retaining their manorial rights, the patronage of
144-524: The Grand Lodge of Scotland from 1773 to 1774. He died at Dunkeld on 5 November 1774. Atholl married his first cousin, Lady Charlotte , daughter of James Murray, 2nd Duke of Atholl , at Dunkeld , on 23 October 1753. They had nine children: Atholl died in November 1774, aged 45, after drowning himself in the River Tay in a fit of delirium and was buried at Dunkeld. His eldest son John succeeded him in
162-467: The asylum was being built cinerary urns were uncovered near the circle, including one which contained some partially burnt human bones. In 1894 it became one of the first asylums to build villas for its patients in an attempt to develop a 'colony or village system' of patient accommodation. During the First World War , it was used as a war hospital, offering beds for 350 other ranks. It was also used as
180-473: The bishopric and other ecclesiastical benefices, the fisheries, minerals, etc. The arrangement rendered them very unpopular in Mann, and the 42nd Regiment of Foot , or Black Watch, under Lord John Murray, had to be stationed in the island to maintain order. The money received by the duke and duchess was directed to be laid out and invested in the purchase of lands of inheritance in Scotland, to be inalienably entailed on
198-572: The blood . However, on 7 February 1764, the House of Lords deemed Murray the rightful heir to his uncle's title (notwithstanding the attainder of his father) and he succeeded him as 3rd Duke of Atholl. He was elected a Scottish representative peer in 1766. His wife, on the death of her father, the second duke, succeeded to the suzerainty of the Isle of Man , and to the ancient English barony of Strange , of Knockyn, Wotton, Mohun, Burnel, Basset, and Lacy. For some time negotiations had been in progress with
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#1733114080764216-483: The castle and the chapel was done by Patric Park , then aged only 17. John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl John Murray, 3rd Duke of Atholl , KT , PC (6 May 1729 – 5 November 1774), known as John Murray until 1764, was a Scottish peer and Tory politician. He was born 6 May 1729. Murray was the eldest son of Lord George Murray , fifth son of John Murray, 1st Duke of Atholl . James Murray and George Murray were his younger brothers. For some time he
234-405: The hospital was Dr William M'Intosh who encouraged the hospital's policy of using occupation and exercise to help patients. This meant that patients were engaged in activities such as working in the grounds and sewing. Other activities included participation in sports such as football and curling in winter and cricket in summer. Walks in the countryside and dances were also organised for patients in
252-612: The introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in 1984. While the main building was demolished, an administration block was retained and some of the villas are thought to survive. The archives of the hospital are held by the University of Dundee 's Archive Services as part of the NHS Tayside Archives. Murthly Murthly ( Scottish Gaelic Mòrthlaich )
270-420: The summer months. The main building was designed by Dundee architects Edward and Robertson, and was able to accommodate 222 patients. Along with a governor's house, farm office and other works, the contract for construction was valued at £18,000. An administrative block was added in around 1871. The grounds included a stone circle , which prior to the laying of the asylum would have stood in an open field. When
288-477: The views of the Black Linn and its falls. It has since become a major landscape feature and has been the subject of several paintings and sketches, including from George Washington Wilson 's visit around 1859. Dating from the 15th century, Murthly Castle ( 56°32′30″N 3°30′41″W / 56.5416°N 3.5113°W / 56.5416; -3.5113 ) is 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (3 kilometres) west of
306-581: The village centre. An ambitious 19th-century replacement castle, Murthly House , was commissioned by the 6th baronet in 1827, with James Gillespie Graham as its architect. It was, however, never finished and was demolished in 1949, never having been wholly occupied. Within the castle grounds is the Chapel of St Anthony the Eremite, a Catholic chapel designed by James Gillespie Graham and A. W. N. Pugin in 1846, attached to an earlier 16th-century chapel. Carving in
324-516: Was captain in a company of Lord Loudoun's regiment of foot, afterwards the 54th. Murray sat as Member of Parliament for Perthshire from 1761 to 1764. On 8 January 1764, his uncle and father-in-law, the 2nd Duke of Atholl , died. Murray should have been heir to the dukedom, which was only able to descend through the male line; but he was ineligible since his father had fought in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and had consequently been attainted in
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