John Edward Gartside, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.

A young bearded man, identified as John Edward Gartside, a warehouseman from Roughtown, Mossley near Manchester. He was admitted to the West Riding Asylum in March 1872 as a bachelor aged nineteen. His insanity was indicated by "tearing his clothes, also bedclothes. Attempting to strangle his mother." He also "interrupted the service of the School Church by his incoherent manner". His case notes suggest that this photograph was taken in July 1872. He was discharged recovered in July, 1874 -- records in the West Yorkshire Archive Service, Wakefield, Yorkshire, identified by David Scrimgeour, op. cit.