| The Homestead | |||||||||||
| Map Type: | United Kingdom London Richmond upon Thames | ||||||||||
| Building Type: | House | ||||||||||
| Location: | 113 Church Road, Barnes, London SW13 in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames | ||||||||||
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The Homestead is a Grade II listed house at Church Road, Barnes, London SW13, built in about 1720.
The Scottish physician, librarian, and medical historian Robert Willis lived and practised there from 1846 until his death in 1878.[1]
Sir Ralph Moor, high commissioner of the British Southern Nigeria Protectorate poisoned himself there in 1909. The coroner's jury determined that "the poison was deliberately taken whilst temporarily insane after suffering acutely from insomnia", having heard evidence that Moor had suffered for the last four years on his return from Africa with malarial and backwater fever that induced insomnia.[2]