Daniel Hack Tuke (1827–95)

Physician, psychiatrist, and author. Secretary to the York Retreat, a private mental asylum, 1847–50; assistant medical officer, 1853. Studied medicine at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, and in Heidelberg, 1850–3. Taught psychological medicine at York medical school; from the 1870s was a general consultant on insanity. Initiated a campaign to end mechanical restraint, and wrote standard texts on the treatment of the insane. Joint editor, Journal of Mental Science, 1880; president, Medico-Psychological Association, 1881.