From at least 1580 prison facilities were provided by the White Lion Inn. For many years there were plans to demolish and rebuild and this finally happened when the Marshalsea moved onto this site. Other Surrey County Prisons were: at Newington Causeway, where the Sessions House still is, built in 1791 and closed 1878; and near Wandsworth Common, built 1851.
This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Surrey County / White Lion Prison
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Marshalsea 5 - stone - at gates
This is our first push-me-pull-you plaque. It is in Angel Alley at the gates...
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Stanley Bean Atkinson
Barrister-at-law, Stepney Borough Councillor, guardian of the poor, member of Metropolitan Asylums Board. On top of his legal qualifications he also studied medicine at St Bartholomew's. Died aged ...
1 memorial
John Fettes
John Fettes was born on 24 February 1871 at 5 Warner Street, Southwark, Surrey (now Greater London), the second of the seven children of James Thomson Fettes (1843-1916) and Elizabeth Morrison Fett...
1 memorial
Tun prison, Cornhill
The Sole Society say The Tun "stood here between 1283 and 1401 and was used in the main to incarcerate ‘street walkers and lewd women’. Stocks and a pillory replaced it and in 1703 Daniel Defoe, wh...
1 memorial
Sir Alexander Russell Downer, KBE
High Commissioner for Australia 1964-72. Known as Alick and not to be confused with his son, Alexander John Gosse Downer (b.1951) who was also High Commissioner from 2014 to 2018. Our Picture Sou...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, Politics & Administration, Australia
1 memorial
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.
2 memorials
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