Place    To 1880

King's Bench Prison

Categories: Law

Established in medieval times as a place to hold prisoners of the King's Bench court, primarily debtors. It was originally sited in Angel Place, off Borough High Street, just north of what is now John Harvard Library. In 1754-8 this was demolished and replaced with a new building erected to the south-west on what was then St George's Fields and is now Scovell housing estate. In 1842 it became the Queen's Prison and took debtors from the Marshalsea and Fleet Prisons. It became the Southwark Convict Prison and then closed.

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King's Bench Prison

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King of Corsica

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Simon Lowe

Simon Lowe

Retired from Belmont and Lowe, solicitors, on 30th April 1992.

Person, Law

1 memorial
Marcus Grantham

Marcus Grantham

Member of Middle Temple. Father of Adrianne Uziell-Hamilton. Andrew Behan has established, from the 1939 England and Wales register compiled on the outbreak of WW2, that there was a Marcus Grantha...

Person, Law

1 memorial
William Ralston Shedden-Ralston

William Ralston Shedden-Ralston

Born York Terrace, Regent’s Park. His strange name seems to be the result of his father's near-illegitimacy and subsequent extensive litigation. Librarian, folklorist and Russian scholar. He gra...

Person, Law, Museums / Libraries, Russia

1 memorial
transportation to Australia

transportation to Australia

One of the (many) supposed origins of the word 'pom' for an Englishman, is that convicts were branded with the initials of 'Prisoner of Millbank'.

Event, Law, Transport, Australia

5 memorials
Granville Sharp

Granville Sharp

Anti-slavery campaigner.  Born Durham.  1757 became Clerk in the Ordnance Office.  Became involved with the anti-slavery campaign by a personal involvement with an injured slave, Jonathan Strong, a...

Person, Law, Race Issues

1 memorial

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Peter Pasqualino
1 memorial
Arthur Fleischmann

Arthur Fleischmann

Sculptor.  Born Bratislava which was in Hungary at the time.  Studied medicine and started work in Vienna as a dermatologist but he had also been studying sculpture and in 1924 he gave up the 'day ...

Person, Sculpture, Austria, Hungary, Indonesia

2 memorials
J. T. McRedmond

J. T. McRedmond

Coaching Department

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War dead, WW1
1 memorial
P. A. Morris
War dead, WW1
1 memorial
James Walworth

James Walworth

Monk at London Charterhouse. Exiled to the Charterhouse in Hull and then executed in York.

Person, Execution, Religion

1 memorial