Prison reformer. Born as Elizabeth Gurney in Norwich into a Quaker banking family. Priscilla Wakefield was her aunt. She first visited Newgate prison in 1813 and was appalled at the conditions of female prisoners. She campaigned and was influential in the introduction of the Prison Act of 1823. She is represented on the English £5 note.
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Elizabeth Fry
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Elizabeth Fry
Mrs Elizabeth Fry, 1780 - 1845, prison reformer, lived here, 1800 to 1809. T...
New Lansdowne Club
The Elizabeth Fry Refuge, 1849 -1913, to help women in need. Elizabeth Fry, 1...
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Countess Mountbatten of Burma
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Person, Politics & Administration, Social Welfare, Borneo, India
2 memorials
Notting Hill Housing Trust
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2 memorials
Raoul Wallenberg
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War dead, WW2
1 memorial
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly at its third session on 10 December 1948. Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the committee that drafted it and our image shows her holding the Spanish...
1 memorial
Irish immigrants
From the Irish Times: "In the grim 1950s, 40,000 people left Ireland every year to emigrate to Britain. They built the roads and repaired the bombed out buildings of post-war Britain. They staffed ...
1 memorial
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