The Clink Prison is the name given to all the prisons that have stood on a number of sites in this vicinity. The first prison in 1127 was a cellar in the Palace of the Bishop of Winchester, and the last was in Deanman's Place (Park Street). Believed to be the oldest prison in England, the Clink took in its first female client in 1246. Protestants and Catholics were held here depending on which religion was uppermost at the time. Little used after the Civil War, it was burnt down in the Gordon Riots and never rebuilt.
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Clink prison
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Clink prison - blue
London Borough of Southwark The Clink, 1151 - 1780, most notorious medieval p...
Clink Prison - bronze
Clink Prison The Clink Prison is the name given to all the prisons that have ...
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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...
1 memorial
Sir Reginald Rowe
Wrote the forward to the 1942 biography of Octavia Hill by E. Moberly Bell. The Improved Tenements Association was set up in 1900. From The London Journal: "As a concession to the societies, and t...
1 memorial
Lieutenant Commander James Dawbarn Young, R.N.V.R.
Qualified as surveyor and then as a lawyer. Public spirited and worked with the Claremont Central Mission (we think this was a nationwide religious charitable organisation working with young peopl...
War dead, WW1
3 memorials
Alfred George Marten
Son of Robert Giles Marten. Admitted to Inner Temple in 1852 and became a QC, County Court Judge and knighted in 1896. MP for Cambridge. Was Treasurer of the Temple in 1893. Died St Leonard's on Sea.
1 memorial
Sir Samuel Romilly
Law reformer. Born in Frith Street. Solicitor-General 1806. Caroline's Miscellany has done the research on his campaign to reduce the number of crimes with a mandatory death penalty. Kept 2 pet le...
2 memorials