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14-733: The asylum occupied Elm Grove in Ealing - The Entrance Lodge was on the south-west corner of Ealing Common. In March 1870, the Secretary of State for India bought the Elm Grove estate from the Perceval family for £24,500. Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt then oversaw the conversion of the property into a lunatic asylum for patients sent home from British India . The new Royal Indian Asylum opened in August 1870, taking in patients previously looked after in

28-880: A new governmental department in London , the India Office , headed by the cabinet-ranking Secretary of State for India , who was in turn to be advised by a new Council of India (also based in London). But this new council of India, which assisted the Secretary of State for India contained 15 members. The Council of the Secretary of State, also known as the India Council was based in Whitehall . In 1907, two Indians, Sir Krishna Govinda Gupta and Nawab Syed Hussain Bilgrami , were appointed by Lord Morley as members of

42-533: A substantial private residence, known as 'Newells', not far from Leonardslee at Lower Beeding , near Horsham in Sussex, as mentioned in A History of the County of Sussex: Volume 6 . Newells had been occupied as a preparatory school for boys from 1946 until destroyed by fire in 1968. Photographic images of the exterior and interior of the house, when occupied by the prep. school, can be seen at an external link given in

56-799: The Council of India . In this role he designed the interiors of the India Office in London (1867: now part of the Foreign & Commonwealth Office ) and the Royal Indian Engineering College (1871-3: now the Runnymede campus of Brunel University ). A paper on the construction of the exhibition building read before the Institution of Civil Engineers in 1866 was awarded the Telford medal . His work included, c. 1869,

70-693: The East India Company ’s Asylum at Pembroke House, London. One such was Captain John Dibbs (1790–1872). In 1874 the India Office was given notice that the proposed Hounslow and Metropolitan Railway was to run through the grounds of the Asylum. An Act to give effect to this was enacted in 1878, with provisions to protect the interests of the Royal Indian Asylum: a compulsory purchase was limited to no more than two acres, unless

84-756: The Judge Institute of Management ). He designed the Rothschild Mausoleum in the Jewish Cemetery at West Ham . In 1851, Wyatt produced the book The Industrial Arts of the Nineteenth Century , an imposing imperial folio in two volumes which illustrates a selection of items from the Great Exhibition of 1851 . The book, which has won widespread acclaim for the quality of its plates, appeared in two parts, with

98-622: The Secretary of State for India , Wyatt oversaw the conversion of the Elm Grove House estate at Hanwell into the new Royal India Asylum , which opened in August 1870. Council of India The Council of India (1858 – 1935) was an advisory body to the Secretary of State for India , established in 1858 by the Government of India Act 1858 . It was based in London and initially consisted of 15 members. The Council of India

112-852: The University of Cambridge . From 1855 until 1859 he was honorary secretary of the Royal Institute of British Architects , and in 1866 received the Royal Gold Medal. Born in Rowde , Wiltshire, Wyatt trained as an architect in the office of his elder brother, Thomas Henry Wyatt . He assisted Isambard Kingdom Brunel on the terminus of the Great Western Railway at London Paddington (1854). He also enlarged and rebuilt Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge (1866: now

126-539: The Secretary of State consented; the railway would go through the grounds in cutting; a bridge and road over the cutting were to be built and maintained; and the railway was to be fenced off. Negotiations between the India Office and the railway centred on the price to be paid for the land, the position of the bridge, and the fencing. Dr Thomas Christie, the Superintendent of the Asylum, was consulted about

140-683: The article ' Newells Preparatory School '. His other commissions in Sussex included Possingworth Manor and Oldlands near Herron's Ghyll. Amongst the extravagant pieces he worked on was Robert Stephenson Works of Newcastle upon Tyne 1295 of 1862. This 2-2-4T for the Egyptian Railways survives with all its fantastical marquetry in the Egyptian Railway Museum in Cairo . It is called the Khedive's Train. In 1870, for

154-437: The estate for building, Elm Grove was demolished in 1894. 51°30′22″N 0°20′59″W  /  51.50620°N 0.34980°W  / 51.50620; -0.34980 Matthew Digby Wyatt Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt (28 July 1820 – 21 May 1877) was a British architect and art historian who became Secretary of the Great Exhibition , Surveyor of the East India Company and the first Slade Professor of Fine Art at

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168-557: The first dated 1 October 1851, through to the extra-illustrated title pages dated 15 March 1853. There are 160 chromolithographed plates produced by a team of artists and lithographers including Francis Bedford , J. A. Vinter and Henry Rafter . He was appointed to the post of Surveyor of the East India Company in 1855, shortly before its role in governing India was taken over by the Crown, and subsequently became Architect to

182-461: The protection to be given to patients. It was agreed that an iron railing would serve the purpose and look better than the high brick wall planned by the railway company. Christie believed that patients were less likely to climb an open railing than a wall they could not see over. Bars should be vertical, except at the top and bottom, to discourage climbing. The land was conveyed in 1881. The asylum closed in 1892. After Leopold de Rothschild had bought

196-666: Was dissolved in 1935 by the Government of India Act 1935 . It is different from the Viceroy's Executive Council based in India, which was the advisory body and cabinet of the Governor-General of India/Viceroy, which was originally established in 1773 as the Council of Four . In 1858 the company's involvement in India's government was transferred by the Government of India Act 1858 to the British government . The act created

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