by Peter Ford
Cambridge, 1st duke of, 1, 2
Cambridge, George William, 2nd duke of, 1, 2, 3, 4
Cambridgeshire Customs and Folklore (Porter), 1
Campbell, Herbert, 1
Campbell, Mary, 1
Cardew, Wardell, 1, 2
Carey, William, 1
Carr Gomm, F. C., 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Cartwright, William, 1
Cassell & Co., 1
Chinese Saloon, Pall Mall, 1, 2
City of London, 1
Clark, Sir Andrew, 1, 2
Clarke, Julian St Thomas, 1
Cohen Jr, M. M., 1
Contes de ma mère d’Oye (Perrault), 1
Cooper, Dr, 1
Cornwall and York, duke of, 1
Cotton, Mr, 1
Country of the ‘Ring and the Book’, The (Treves), 1
Court Theatre, London, 1
Coutts, bankers, 1
Crachami, Caroline, 1
Cradle of the Deep, The (Treves), 1
Crocker, Dr Henry Radcliffe, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Crowe, F. W., 1, 2
Croydon, fairs at, 1, 2
Croydon Advertiser, 1
Dailo Sisters, 1
Dallas, Duncan, 1
Dallington, 1
Dame Madge Kendal by Herself, 1, 2, 3
Dawson of Penn, Lord, 1
Defoe, Daniel, 1
‘Deformito-mania’, 1
Dickens, Charles, 1
Diseases of the Nervous System (Brain), 1
Diseases of the Skin (Crocker), 1
Disraeli, Benjamin, 1
Doctor in the Nineties, A, (Halsted), 1, 2, 3
Dooley, Bertram, 1
Dooley, William (‘Benson Dulay’), 1, 2
Dorchester, 1, 2, 3; Treves’s funeral in, 1
Dorset Society, 1
Dover, 1, 2
Down, Langdon, 1
Durland, ‘Professor’, 1
East Anglian Folklore (Porter), 1
Edison, Thomas Alvar, 1
Education Act 1870, 1, 2
Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; meets the Elephant Man, 1, 2;
operated on by Treves on eve of coronation, 1, 2, 3
Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, 1
‘Electra, Mlle’. 1
‘Elephant Man, The’, essay in supra (Treves), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; text of, 1
Elephant Man, The pamphlet, 1; text of, 1
Elephant Man, The, play (Pomerance), 1
Elephant Man: A Study in Human Dignity, The (Montagu), 1
Elephant Man and Other Reminiscences, The (Treves), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Elizabeth I, 1
Ellis, Mrs I. C., 1
Ellis, J., 1, 2
Emma (Austen), 1, 2
Evans, Bergen, 1, 2
Every-day Book, The (Hone), 1
Evington, 1
‘False Greatness’ (Watts), 1, 2, 3
Faraday, Michael, 1
Fawsley Park, Merrick’s visits to, 1, 2, 3
‘Ferrari, Mr’, 1
Fielden, Mr, 1
Flower, Sir Newman, 1, 2, 3, 4
Fox, Dr Tilbury, 1, 2, 3
Freeman’s, Messrs, cigar manufacturers, 1, 2
Friar Lane Baptist Church, Leicester, 1
Frost, Thomas, 1, 2
Gaiety Palace of Varieties, Leicester, see under Gladstone Vaults Hotel
Gaiety Theatre, London, 1
Garrick, David, 1
Geary, Michael, 1, 2
German Hospital, London, 1
Gladstone, W. E., 1, 2
Gladstone Vaults Hotel, Leicester, Gaiety Palace of Varieties at, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Glover, Jimmy, 1
Goldby, Mr and Mrs, 1
Great Eastern Railway ferry services, 1
Grenfell, Sir Wilfred, 1, 2, 3
Griffiths, Brothers, 1, 2
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1
Grocers’ Company, 1
Halsted, Dr. D. G., 1, 2, 3
Hardwicke, Sir Cedric, 1
Hardy, Mary, 1
Hare, John, 1, 2
Harris, Augustus, 1, 2, 3, 4
Harwich, 1, 2, 3
Haycock’s Hill Farm, 1
Herman, Henry, 1
Hicks, Seymour, 1
Highways and Byways in Dorset (Treves), 1, 2
Hitchcock, George (‘Little George’), 1, 2, 3 4, 5
Hobby Horse, The (Pinero), 1
Hodges, Mr, 1, 2
Hone, William, 1, 2
Hooker, Sir Joseph, 1
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 1
Horae Lyricae (Watts), 1
How, Rev. William Walsham, suffragan bishop of Bedford, 1, 2
Human Shows, Far Phantasies (Hardy), 1
Hungarian Peasant Customs (Viski), 1
Hunter, William, 1
Hunterian Museum, 1
Hutchinson, Sir Jonathan, 1, 2
Huth, lithographers, 1
Illustrated Leicester Chronicle, 1, 2, 3, 4
Illustrated London News, 1
‘In the Evening’ (Hardy), 1
Intestinal Obstruction (Treves), 1
Ipswich, S. S., 1
Ireland, Nurse, 1, 2
Irving, Sir Henry, 1
‘Jack the Ripper’, 1, 2
Jackson, Hughlings, 1
Jeune, the Hon. Mrs, 1
Jimmy, Tom Norman’s assistant, 1, 2
Jones, Henry Arthur, 1
Jones, Sarah, 1
Just as it Happened (Flower), 1, 2
Kendal, Madge (later Dame), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; arranges Merrick’s visit to the pantomime, 1, 2, 3, 4
Kendal, W. H., 1, 2, 3, 4
King’s Lynn, 1
Knightley, Lady Louisa, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Labrador Doctor, A (Grenfell), 1, 2, 3
Lake of Geneva, The (Treves), 1
Lancet, 1
Land That is Desolate, The (Treves), 1
Lauri, Charles, 1
Law, John, 1
Leicester, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11; and Merrick’s family background
Leicester – contd and early life in, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; and period in workhouse at, 1, 2;
annual fairs of, 1, 2, 3;
see also Leicester Infirmary; Leicester Union Workhouse
Leicester Chronicle, 1, 2
Leicester Infirmary, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Leicester Journal, 1, 2, 3
Leicester Museum, 1
Leicester Trade Directories, 1, 2, 3
Leicester Union Workhouse, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Leno, Dan, 1
Lind, Letty, 1
Liverpool Street Station, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Living, The, Palace of Varieties, Nottingham, 1, 2
Livingstone, David, 1
Lloyd George, David, 1
Local Government Act 1888, 1
London Directory (1886), 1
London Hospital, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; Merrick’s admission to, 1, 2, 3;
and campaign to keep him there, 1, 2, 3;
accommodation found for him in, 1, 2;
celebration of Christmas at, 1;
see also Medical College
Lückes, Eva, matron, 1, 2
Lyceum Theatre, 1
Manual of Operative Surgery, A (Treves), 1
Manual of Surgery by Various Authors (ed. Treves), 1
Marriott, Charles, 1, 2
Martin Chuzzlewit (Dickens), 1
Mason, Anne Elizabeth, see Treves, Anne Elizabeth
maternal impression, folklore of, and Merrick’s story, 1
Maturin, Leila, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Maturin, Dr Leslie, 1
Mayhew, Henry, 1
Medical College, London Hospital, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; clinical examination of Merrick at, 1, 2;
museum of, 1, 2;
and Merrick’s relics in, 1;
new accommodation for, 1, 2
Meech, waxworks makers, 1
Memoirs of Bartholomew Fair (
Morley), 1
Merchant Taylors’ School, 1
Merrick, Barnabas (grandfather), 1, 2
Merrick, Charles Barnabas (uncle), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Merrick, Emma Wood (stepmother), 1, 2, 3
Merrick, Jane (aunt), 1
Merrick, John Ernest (cousin), 1
MERRICK, JOSEPH CAREY, (‘The Elephant Man’) exhibited in Whitechapel freakshop, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15; question of his name, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
first meeting with Treves, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
mother’s accident with elephant held to account for condition, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; clinical examinations and presentations of his case, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
and the onset of his disorder, 1;
and its nature, 1, 2, 3;
see also multiple neurofibromatosis; Proteus syndrome family origins and early years, 1, 2, 3, 4; and mother’s death, 1;
and life in workhouse, 1
life as professional freak, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; disastrous continental tour, 1, 2;
and return to England, 1, 2, 3, 4
admission to the London Hospital, 1, 2, 3, 4; and campaign to keep him there, 1, 2, 3, 4;
and accommodation found for him at, 1, 2
care, character and relationship with Treves, 1, 2, 3, 4
attracts the attentions of society, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5; visits Treves’s house, 1, 2;
and the Drury Lane pantomime, 1, 2, 3;
and the countryside, 1, 2, 3
his physical decline, 1; and death, 1, 2;
inquest and dissection, 1, 2
effects on Treves’s career, 1, 2
his memorabilia, 1
Merrick, Joseph Rockley (father), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Merrick, Marian Eliza (sister), 1, 2, 3, 4
Merrick, Mary Jane (mother), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
Merrick, Sarah (grandmother), 1
Merrick, William Arthur (brother), 1, 2, 3
Middlesex Hospital, 1, 2
Millais, Sir John, 1
Montagu, Ashley, 1
Morley, Henry, 1, 2, 3
multiple neurofibromatosis, nature of as a disorder, 1; and modern views of the disease, 1, 2, 3;
see also Proteus syndrome
Multiple Neurofibromatosis (Crowe, Schull and Neel), 1
National Health Service, 1
National Insurance Act 1911, 1
Natural History of Nonsense, The (Evans), 1
Neel, J.F., 1, 2
neurofibromatosis, see multiple neurofibromatosis
Neurology (Wilson), 1
Nevill, Lady Dorothy, 1, 2, 3
Nicholls, Harry, 1
Nineteenth Century Leicester (Ellis), 1
Noakes, Charles, 1
Noakes, as Tom Norman’s family name, 1, 2
Noakes, Thomas, 1
Norman, Tom (‘The Silver King’), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23; life and colourful career, 1;
and death, 1
Northampton, 1, 2, 3, 4
Northampton Mercury, 1
Norwich, S. S., 1
Nottingham, 1, 2, 3
Nottingham Journal, 1
‘Old Receiving Room, The’, essay (Treves), 1
Old Showmen and the Old London Fairs, The (Frost), 1
Ostend, 1, 2
Other Side of the Lantern, The (Treves), 1, 2
Pall Mall Gazette, 1
pantomime, tradition of in Victorian England, 1
Paré, Ambroise, 1
Parry, William, 1
Pathological Society of London, 1, 2; and Treves’s presentation of Merrick’s case to, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Payne, Harry, 1
Payne, W. H., 1
Peel, Sir Robert, 1
Perrault, Charles, 1
Pinero, Arthur Wing, 1, 2
Pomerance, Bernard, 1
Ponsonby, Sir Frederick, 1
Poole, 1
Poor Law, principles underlying workings of, 1; see also Leicester Union Workhouse
Porter, Enid, 1
Potterton, Elizabeth, 1
Potterton, Mary Jane, see Merrick, Mary Jane
Potterton, William, 1
Preston, George, 1
Princess of Wales, P. S., 1
Proteus syndrome, hypothesis of in Merrick’s case, 1
‘Proteus Syndrome: the Elephant Man Diagnosed, The’ (Tibbies and Cohen), 1
Punch, 1, 2, 3, 4
Puss in Boots (Drury Lane pantomime), 1
Radford, 1
Radium Institute, London, 1
Recklinghausen, Frederick Daniel von, 1, 2
Recklinghausen’s disease, see multiple neurofibromatosis
Redhill Farm, 1
‘Ring and the Book, The’ (Browning), 1
Riviera on the Corniche Road, The (Treves), 1
Robertson, James, 1
Robertson, Madge, see Kendal, Madge
Robertson, T. W. (‘Tom’), 1
Robinson Crusoe: His Life and Adventures (Defoe), 1
Roper, Sam, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
‘Roper’s Midgets’, 1
Rose and the Ring, The (Thackeray), 1
Roxby, Wilfred, 1
Royal College of Surgeons, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Royal Hospital for Incurables, 1, 2
Royal London Opthalmic Hospital, 1
Royal National Hospital for Scrofula, Margate, 1
Royal Society of Medicine, 1
St James’s Theatre, Piccadilly, 1, 2
St Thomas’s Hospital, 1
Sam Roper’s Fair, 1
Sanger, ‘Lord’ George, 1
Schull, W., 1, 2
Scrofula and Its Gland Diseases (Treves), 1
Sedgwick’s menagerie, 1
Seurat, Claude Amboise (‘The Living Skeleton’), 1, 2
Seward, G. R., 1, 2
Shakespeare, William, 1
Shaw, George Bernard, 1
Shepherd, Albert and Eli, 1
Showmen’s Guild, 1
Silver King, The (Jones and Herman), 1
Singer, Mr, 1, 2, 3
Society of Apothecaries, 1
Society of Dorset Men, 1
Somerset, Lady Geraldine, 1
Sotheby’s, 1
Spitalfields, 1
Stanley, H. M., 1
Steel, Walter, 1
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 1
Story of a Surgeon, The (Bland–Sutton), 1, 2
Sullivan, Sir Arthur, 1
Surgical Applied Anatomy (Treves), 1
Sydenham, 1
System of Surgery, A (Treves), 1
Tale of a Field Hospital, The (Treves), 1
Taylor, Charles, 1
Taylor, William, 1, 2, 3
Tempest, The (Shakespeare), 1
Terry, Ellen, 1
Textbook of Pathology (Boyd), 1
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Merrick attends pantomime at, 1, 2
Thumb, General Tom, 1
Thurmaston, 1
Tibbies, J. A. R., 1
Till, Will, 1
Tilley, Vesta, 1
Times, The, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6; and Carr Gomm’s letter of appeal in, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6;
Carr Gomm’s letter to, following Merrick’s death, 1, 2;
report on Merrick’s death in, 1
Torr, Clara, 1
Torr, Sam, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Transactions of the Pathological Society of London, 1, 2, 3, 4
Travelling People, The (Dallas), 1
Tree, Mrs Beerbohm, 1
Treloar, Sir William, 1
Treves, Anne Elizabeth (later Lady Treves), 1, 2
Treves, Enid, 1
TREVES, FREDERICK (later Sir), 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 visits Merrick in freakshop, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7; factual discrepancies in account, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7;
and error over Merrick’s Christian name, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
early life, 1;
pr
ogress of professional career, 1, 2, 3, 4; makes clinical examinations of Merrick’s condition, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
rescues Merrick at Liverpool Street Station, 1, 2; obtains Merrick’s admission to the London Hospital, 1, 2, 3, 4
relationship with and care of Merrick, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; arranges for Merrick to visit his home, 1, 2;
and Drury Lane pantomime, 1, 2, 3;
and the countryside, 1, 2, 3
conducts dissection of Merrick’s body, 1, 2
becomes leading authority on appendicitis, 1, 2; retires from medicine to write, 1;
death and funeral, 1;
the writing of ‘The Elephant Man’, 1
Treves, Hetty, 1; death of, 1
Treves, William, 1
Trombley, Stephen, 1
Tuckett, Dr Reginald, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
Uganda for a Holiday (Treves), 1
University College Hospital, London, 1
University of Strasbourg, 1
Valentine, Rev. Tristram, 1
Van Dwellers’ Association, see Showmen’s Guild
Vaughan, Dr Charles John, 1
Victoria, Queen, 1, 2, 3; Diamond Jubilee of, 1, 2
Victorian in Orbit, A (Hardwicke), 1
Viski, Dr Károly, 1
von Recklinghausen, see Recklinghausen, Frederick Daniel von
Wadman, Tilly, 1
Walpole, Sir Robert, 1
Watts, Isaac, 1, 2
Weaker Sex, The (Pinero), 1
Weber, Dr F. Parkes, 1, 2
Wellesley, the Hon. Mrs Gerald, 1, 2
Wellington, duke of, 1
Weston, George, 1
Whitechapel, London, 1, 2
Whitechapel Road, 1;