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
Mrs Elizabeth Fry, 1780 - 1845, prison reformer, lived here, 1800 to 1809. T...
The Elizabeth Fry Refuge, 1849 -1913, to help women in need. Elizabeth Fry, 1...
The idea of adjusting clocks in order to benefit from daylight was first prop...
Otherwise known as the Elizabeth Fry Institute for Reformation of Women Priso...
The almshouses were on the area west of Newington Butts and south of St Georg...
The Board of Guardians and Trustees for the Relief of the Jewish Poor Registe...
