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Dr Blake Marsh and the Blake Marsh Lectures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Kenneth Day*
Affiliation:
Northgate & Prudhoe NHS Trust Northumberland and Department of Psychiatry, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Joze Jancar
Affiliation:
Stoke Park Hospital, Bristol
*
Correspondence: Dr Day, Northgate Hospital, Morpeth, Northumberland NE61 3BP
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At the Council meeting of the Royal Medico-Psychological Association in November 1963 the Treasurer reported that “a handsome legacy of about £20,000 in shares had been made to the association by the late Dr Blake Marsh and arrangements are being made to take over these shares”. The actual amount was in fact a little over £23,500 – a considerable sum by today's standards. Numerous suggestions were made as to how this generous gift might be honoured including naming the Association's Bronze Medal after Blake Marsh but Council finally accepted a recommendation of the Education Committee “to found an annual lecture of a standing equal to the Maudsley Lecture on a subject connected with Mental Deficiency to be known by his (Dr Blake Marsh's) name” and this was ratified at the Annual Meeting in 1965.

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Copyright © 1997 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

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