thority of William Botoner or William of Worcester, asserts that he lived about 1320, but Weever in his ‘Funerall Monuments’ quotes from Haselwood a eulogy of Edward the Black Prince. Haselwood's only work is said to have been a ‘Chronicon Compendiarium Cantuariense;’ Weever states that it was in the Cottonian Library, but gives no more exact reference, and it seems impossible to decide for certain whether it is still preserved there; if so it has been lost sight of. The last words of the extract given by Weever are ‘inter regales regum memorias dignum [sc. Edwardum principem] duximus commendandum,’ which looks as if Haselwood's work was a series of short lives of English kings, perhaps a compilation made for the use of his scholars.
[Bale, v. 20; Weever's Funerall Monuments, p. 206; Fuller's Worthies, Kent, p. 81; Tanner's Bibl. Brit.-Hib. p. 383.]
HASLAM, JOHN (1764–1844), medical writer, was born in London in 1764 and received his medical education at the United Borough Hospitals and at Edinburgh, where he attended the medical classes in 1785 and 1786. After acting for many years as apothecary to Bethlehem Hospital, London, thus obtaining a practical knowledge of diseases of the brain, he was created a doctor of medicine by the university of Aberdeen, 17 Sept. 1816, and established himself as a physician in London. To comply with the regulations of the College of Physicians in London, he entered himself at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and kept some terms there, but took no degree. He was admitted a licentiate of the College of Physicians, 12 April 1824. Haslam was long distinguished in private practice by his prudent treatment of the insane, while his scientific publications and his contributions on general literature to the periodicals gave him a wide reputation. He died at 56 Lamb's Conduit Street, London, 20 July 1844, aged 80.
Haslam wrote:
- ‘Observations on Insanity, with Practical Remarks on the Disease and an Account of the Morbid Appearances on Dissection,’ 1798. The second edition was entitled ‘Observations on Madness and Melancholy,’ 1809.
- ‘Illustrations of Madness, with a Description of the Tortures experienced by Bomb-bursting, Lobster-cracking, and Lengthening the Brain,’ 1810.
- ‘Observations of the Physician [Dr. Thomas Monro] and Apothecary of Bethlem Hospital upon the Evidence before the House of Commons on Madhouses,’ 1816; Haslam's observations are on pp. 37–55.
- ‘Considerations on the Moral Management of Insane Persons,’ 1817.
- ‘Medical Jurisprudence as it relates to Insanity,’ 1817.
- ‘A Letter to the Governors of Bethlehem Hospital, containing an Account of their Management for the last Twenty Years,’ 1818.
- ‘Sound Mind, or Contributions to the History and Physiology of the Human Intellect,’ 1819.
- ‘A Letter to the Lord Chancellor on Unsoundness of Mind and Imbecility of Intellect,’ 1823.
- ‘On the Nature of Thought and its Connexion with a Perspicuous Sentence,’ 1835.
Haslam read three papers—‘On Restraint and Coercion,’ 1833, ‘An Attempt to Institute the Correct Discrimination between Crime and Insanity,’ 1843, and ‘On the Increase of Insanity,’ 1843—before the Society for Improving the Condition of the Insane; these were printed with others by J. C. Sommers in 1850. A portrait of Haslam by G. Dawe was engraved in mezzotint.
[Munk's Coll. of Phys. 1878, iii. 282; Literary Gazette, 27 July 1844, p. 484; Gent. Mag. September 1844, p. 322; Catalogue of Library in Surgeon-General's Office at Washington, 1884, v. 871.]
HASLEM, JOHN (1808–1884), china and enamel painter, born in 1808 at Carrington, near Manchester, left home as a boy to live at Derby with his uncle, James Thomason, afterwards manager of the Derby china works. He studied under George Hancock, and first devoted himself to flower-painting, but subsequently took to figure-painting, in which he was very successful. He painted for the Duke of Sussex a head of Lord Byron, as a present for the king of Greece, and at the duke's instigation came to London and studied under E. T. Parris [q. v.] He copied many pictures in miniature on enamel, and was a frequent exhibitor at the Royal Academy from 1836 to 1865. In 1842 he obtained a medal from the Society of Arts for a portrait on china. He painted a small enamel portrait of the queen, and thenceforward obtained many commissions from the royal family and the nobility, especially for copies of ancestral portraits. He was also frequently employed by jewellers and art dealers, and on one occasion was employed to paint a set of enamels in imitation of Petitot, which were so successful that they appeared in the miniature exhibitions at South Kensington, in 1862 and 1865, as the work of Petitot himself. In 1857 Haslem returned to reside with his uncle in Derby, where he continued till his death in 1884. In 1876 he published a history of ‘The Old Derby China Factory.’
[Haslem's Old Derby China Factory; information from W. Bemrose of Derby; Graves's Dict. of Artists, 1760–1880; Royal Academy Catalogues.]
