Richard Maurice Bucke

Richard Maurice Bucke was a Canadian physician and psychiatrist who served as medical superintendent of the London Asylum for the Insane from 1877 until his death in 1902. He also wrote on philosophy and spirituality, publishing works including *Man’s Moral Nature* and *Cosmic Consciousness*. A close friend, biographer, and literary executor of Walt Whitman, Bucke connected his medical career with influential literary and philosophical interests.