Elizabeth Fry, née Gurney, (born May 21, 1780 and died October 12, 1845.
British Quaker philanthropist and one of the chief promoters of prison reform in Europe. She also helped to improve the British hospital system and the treatment of psychiatric patients.
Daughter of John Gurney of Norfolk and his wife Catherine [or Katherine, née Bell]. Catherine's sister was Priscilla Bell, gradmother to Edward Gibbon Wakefield, making Elizabeth Fry a second-cousin of Edward Gibbon Wakefield.
From: Australian Joint Copying Project : Miscellaneous Series microfilm
Reference: Micro-MS-Coll-20-2677
Description: Quantity: 1 microfilm reel(s). Finding Aids: Inventory available.
Date: 1820-1827
By: Fry, Elizabeth, 1780-1845
Reference: MS-Papers-0804
Description: Letter to S Marsden, 2 Nov 1820, about female convicts; letter to unnamed correspondent on same subject, 24 Nov 1827 Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holograph (photocopies)
Date: 1928 - 1790 - 1820
From: [Various Artists] :[Portraits of the Wakefield family members and views of associated places. 1928]]
Reference: A-087-022
Description: Elizabeth Fry, second-cousin of Edward Gibbon Wakefield, seated at a table inside Newgate Prison, with other charitable visitors to the left, meeting prisoner families Proof for illustration in O'Connor, Irma. Edward Gibbon Wakefield, the man himself. London 1928. Reproduced opposite p. 52. Other Titles - Elizabeth Fry reading to prisoners at Newgate in 1816 [or 1823. Alternative titles] After a portrait by Charles Pearson. Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph, 206 x 121 mm Processing information: Description changed August 2022 following information from a researcher.