Two of his sons, Charles and Jesse, were surgeons and worked in and later ran the asylum when their father died.

They employed demobilised Battle of Waterloo veterans to landscape the area surrounding the buildings.

[2] By the 1870s, Ticehurst was considered one of the most successful and well-regarded private asylums, and by 1900 the site covered over 125 hectares.

[4][5] Today, the hospital offers day care, outpatient, and residential treatment.

[6] Inspections by the Care Quality Commission in September 2019 and December 2020 rated its child and adolescent wards 'inadequate.'