ABSTRACT
When Samuel Newington died in July 1882 there was no shortage of heirs to his estate, or possible successors to his work at the asylum. In 1875, one of Charles Hayes' sons, Herbert Francis Hayes Newington, who was medically qualified, had returned to Ticehurst as co-proprietor (see Figure 6.1). Two of Samuel's sons, Alexander Samuel and Theodore, were also medically qualified and worked at Ticehurst as assistant physician and resident medical officer, respectively; and another of Samuel's sons, Walter James, managed the asylum's seaside extension at St Leonards. In addition, one of Samuel's daughters, Helena, was married to a former assistant medical officer at Ticehurst, George Montague Tuke (see Figure 6.2). 1 Although the prosperity of the 1860s–70s meant that the estate Samuel left was almost twice that of his brother Charles Hayes' nearly twenty years earlier, at just over £10,000 it scarcely enabled him to make lavish bequests to his wife and twelve surviving children. Indeed, when his fortune is compared with that of another of his brothers, Alexander Thurlow, who worked as secretary to the asylum but had no children, and left nearly £24,000 to his nieces and nephews in 1898, it seems likely that much of the £1,800 annual salary which Samuel had paid to himself by the 1870s went on raising and educating his children. 2
