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Unlikely reformer: Dr Henry Calvert Barnett (1832-1897)
1Clinical Research Centre, NMHS MH, WA, Australia, and; Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, School of Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, University of Western Australia, Mount Claremont, WA, Australia.
Objective:
To provide a brief biography of Western Australian colonial lunacy superintendent Dr Henry Calvert Barnett.
Method:
A range of primary sources were consulted.
Results:
Barnett was a complex man: a caring and forward-thinking practitioner who had a colourful and turbulent private life.
Conclusions:
Barnett's contribution to mental health service development in Western Australia was genuine and worthwhile, and should be recognised.