Katherine Juliet Bowes-Lyon

  General Notes:

Nerissa was Mentally Impared from Birth.
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1941 - 1986: Nerissa lived at the Royal Earlswood Hospital, Surrey, England.

The Royal Earlswood Hospital, formerly known as Earlswood Asylum for Idiots and Imbeciles for founded in 1847, and established at Park House, Highgate in 1948 when fifty patients were admitted. By 1849, 145 patients had been admitted. However the accomadation became insuffient. William Bonython Moffat, the architect was asked to design a New institution at Earlswood. They moved to Earlswood in 1855 and from then the number of inmates was usually about 500. The hospital closed in 1997. It has now been converted into luxery appartments.
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Burkes Peerage lists Nerissa as having died in 1940. This is incorrect.
A private funeral was held.

Age 87 at the time of her death