Clare, who was born in 1793 and died in 1864 in Northampton General Lunatic Asylum, is buried in St Botolph's churchyard, Helpston, Cambridgeshire, where there is a memorial to him.

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The security lights had been triggered and through the railings they had watched Manning roaming about, from time to time peering in at the downstairs windows of the lumpy red brick building that was said to have been a lunatic asylum once.

NEWYORKER: Bravado

Leonardo DiCaprio plays a U.S. Marshal, sent with his partner (Mark Ruffalo) to seek a missing person who has escaped from the Ashecliffe lunatic asylum not that there is much to escape to, since the asylum is on Shutter Island, miles from civilization in Boston Harbor.

NEWYORKER: Shutter Island