Person    | Male  Born 1/8/1817  Died 7/1/1886

Richard Dadd

Categories: Art

Painter. Born Chatham in Kent. Died in a lunatic asylum at Broadmoor, outside London of "an extensive disease of the lungs".

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Richard Dadd

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Richard Dadd

Greater London Council Richard Dadd, 1817 - 1886, painter, lived here.

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