Educated at King's College, London, where he was afterwards Professor of Psychological Medicine. He was for many years Medical Superintendent of the Male Department of Colney Hatch Asylum, and, by the great and constant care with which he exercised his functions there, was well known and highly appr

Born on June 21st, 1852, the son of the Rev Lewis P and Anne Mercier, of French Huguenot descent. On the death of his father, the Mercier family were left in such straitened circumstances that after a few months' education at the Merchant Taylors' School in 1862, Mercier went as a cabin-boy on a voy