Sarah Thackray, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1873.

A woman identified as Sarah Thackray from York Road, Leeds. She was admitted to the West Riding Asylum in January 1871 as a forty-six year old spinster. It was her fourth and last visit to the Asylum. Her committal paperwork records observations made by the surgeon Frederick Holmes, who had examined Sarah the previous day: "She is constantly alarmed, restless, violent and excited. Talks wildly and incoherently and believes that those about her wish to rob her of her fortune and birthright." This photograph of Sarah is dated 1873. Her delusions persisted throughout the next 24 years only being brought to an end by her death in June 1895 from chronic disease of her heart and kidneys. -- records in the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, Yorkshire, identified by David Scrimgeour, op. cit.