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Entry Type	Corporate
Corporate Name	Buxton Bath Charity
Place	Buxton
Epithet	Hospital
History	The mineral waters at Buxton have been known and used since Roman times, although it is only from the 16th century that there survives much information on their use and the development of accommodation for visitors wishing to drink the waters. Such accommodation was for the better-off, but it seems that a Charity to enable poor persons to use the medicinal waters existed at least from the 16th century. There is said to have been a treasury of the bath for this purpose in 1572. The charity was revived or formally reconstituted in 1779 as Buxton Bath Charity. ¶ ¶In 1858, the Duke of Devonshire handed over to the trustees of the charity part of the Great Stables (built at the same period as The Crescent in the 1780's). After adaptations, these were opened in 1859 as the Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity, where the charity lodged poor people whilst undergoing treatment. In 1878, the Cotton Districts Convalescent Fund gave £24,000 in recognition of the Hospital's services to distressed Lancashire cotto... The Buxton Bath Charity was revived or formally reconstituted in 1779. In 1858, the Duke of Devonshire handed over to the trustees of the charity part of the Great Stables which were adapted and opened in 1859 as the Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath Charity, where the charity lodged poor people whilst undergoing treatment. ¶¶The inner area of the building was opened up and the whole including the former exercising yard for the horses covered with a dome. The work was completed in 1881. Meanwhile, the building and grounds had been legally conveyed to the charity by the Duke of Devonshire in 1868 for a nominal rent. The Hospital established research laboratories in 1912 with the appointment of a bacteriologist, later in 1923 appointing a research chemist (or biochemist). Research was into arthritis and rheumatism. ¶¶The Hospital continued to expand, adding or converting further buildings and purchasing the Buxton Clinic in 1948. In 1934 it was granted permission to be known as the Devonshire Royal Hospita
Authorised Form of Name	Buxton; Buxton Bath Charity; Hospital

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