Elizabeth Fry, sometimes referred to as Betsy Fry, was an English prison reformer, social reformer, philanthropist and Quaker. Fry was a major driving force behind new legislation to improve the treatment of prisoners, especially female inmates, and as such has been called the 'Angel of Prisons'. She was instrumental in the 1823 Gaols Act which mandated sex-segregation of prisons and female warders for female inmates to protect them from sexual exploitation. Fry kept extensive diaries in which the need to protect female prisoners from rape and sexual exploitation is explicit.
John Gurney may refer to:
Dawson Turner was an English banker, botanist and antiquary. He specialized in the botany of cryptogams and was the father-in-law of the botanist William Jackson Hooker.
The Pease family is an English and mostly Quaker family associated with Darlington, County Durham, and North Yorkshire, descended from Edward Pease of Darlington (1711–1785).
Fry is an English and Scottish surname which derived from the Old Norse frjó meaning 'seed'. Notable people with that surname include:
Isabel Charlotte Talbot, Baroness Talbot de Malahide, was an English philanthropist.
Samuel Gurney was an English banker and philanthropist from the Gurney family of Norwich. He should not be confused with his second son, Samuel (1816–1882), also described as banker and philanthropist, and a Member of Parliament.
William Brodie Gurney (1777–1855) was an English shorthand writer and philanthropist of the 19th century.
The surname Williamson was first found in Peebles, where this predominantly Scottish Clan held a family seat anciently, although their interests straddled the English Scottish border and they held territories as far south as Keswick in Cumberland.
Joseph Fry was a tea dealer and an unsuccessful banker. He was the husband of the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry.
Joseph Gurney (1804–1879) was a British shorthand writer and biblical scholar.
Daniel Gurney (1791–1880), was an English banker and antiquary from the Gurney family of Norwich.
Louisa Gurney Hoare was an English diarist and writer on education, and a member of the Gurney family. She was concerned particularly with standards of education.
William Savery was an American Quaker, an active preacher, an abolitionist and a defender of the rights of Native Americans.
The Gurneys were an influential family of English Quakers, who had a major part in the development of Norwich, England. They established Gurney's Bank in 1770, which merged into Barclays Bank in 1896. Members of the family still live in the United Kingdom.
John Gurney was an English banker and member of the Gurney family of Norwich. Besides his role as a partner in Gurney's bank he is notable as the father of the social reformers Elizabeth Fry and Joseph John Gurney, the writer Louisa Hoare and the banker Samuel Gurney.
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