Notable Patients
- Gladys Spencer-Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough, who spent her last 15 years of life in the hospital
- Sir Malcolm Arnold, British composer
- Dusty Springfield, British singer
- John Clare, the "Northamptonshire peasant poet" spent his last 23 years in the hospital and was given freedom to wander round the town and local area. The John Clare unit of the hospital is named after him
- Violet Gibson who shot Mussolini
- Josef Hassid, the Polish violinist
- Lucia Joyce, daughter of James Joyce, stayed here from 1951 until her death in 1982
- George Gilbert Scott junior, architect (son of the designer of the chapel)
- James Kenneth Stephen, poet
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