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ELIZABETH FRY

Elizabeth Fry (born Elizabeth Gurney) was a British prison reformer. She was born in 1780 and died in 1845. In 1811 she was ordained as a Quaker preacher and in 1813 visited Newgate prison, where, so horrified by the conditions she saw she started to campaign for prison reform. In 1817 she formed an association for female prisoners and subsequently visited gaols in northern England and Scotland with he brother Joseph, publishing her findings in an influential report in 1819. She then went on to campaign across Europe for better conditions for prisoners and those in mental institutions.
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