Edward Parker Charlesworth

[2] Charlesworth was closely linked to the Lincoln Mechanics' Institute and served as its chairman for twenty years.

[1] It was housed in a new building, completed in 1819, and was an independent institution, sharing its medical staff with the County Hospital.

[3] Knowing Harrison's private asylum and its highly coercive methods of treating the insane, Charlesworth secured the issue of an order forbidding attendants to use medical restraint or violence without the consent of the directors.

He supervised the structure and arrangements of the asylum, and secured in 1821 a classification of patients and opportunities for their exercise in the open air.

[1] Conolly visited the York Retreat and the Lincoln asylum, and William Alexander Francis Browne had by then published on non-restraint.