Hubert Bond
Sir Charles Hubert Bond KBE FRCP (6 September 1870 – 18 April 1945) was a British psychiatrist and mental health administrator.
Early life and education
Bond was born in the village of
Bachelor of Medicine (MB) in 1892, Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Public Health in 1893, Doctor of Medicine (MD) in 1895,[1] and Doctor of Science (DSc) that same year.[2]
Career
Bond was Gaskell Gold Medallist in Mental Disorders in 1898. He then took a post at
Long Grove Asylum
.
He was appointed a
Commissioner in Lunacy in 1912 and a commissioner at the new Board of Control for Lunacy and Mental Deficiency
in 1914, remaining there until his retirement less than a month before his death in 1945. In 1930 he became one of the four senior commissioners on the board.
Bond favoured voluntary admission to mental hospitals rather than certification, reforms finally introduced in the
Court of Appeal set the verdict aside and ordered a retrial (later confirmed by the House of Lords), but the plaintiff eventually settled out of court for £250 damages. This contributed to changes in the law in the 1930 act. Bond was also a lecturer in mental disorders at the Maudsley Hospital
from 1919 to 1939, lecturing to trainee psychiatrists on mental illness and the law.
He was honorary general secretary of the
Lebanon Hospital
from 1937 until his death, and a member of the Central Medical War Committee from 1939 until his death.
He was a consultant in
Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire
(KBE) in 1929.
Personal life
On 12 May 1900, Bond married Janet Constance Laurie; they had one daughter. They lived in
St Annes, Lancashire. From 1925 until his death he lived at 10 Portland Place, Brighton
.
Footnotes
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- ^ "No. 31760". The London Gazette (Supplement). 27 January 1920. p. 1237.
References
- Biography, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Biography, Who Was Who