X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Joseph John Gurney


Gaols Act 1823

The idea of prison reform was promoted in the early 19th century by Elizabeth Fry and her brother Joseph John Gurney.

Joseph John Gurney

He was the brother of Elizabeth (Gurney) Fry, a reformer, and Louisa Gurney Hoare, a writer on education, and also the brother-in-law — through his sister Hannah — of Thomas Fowell Buxton, an anti-slavery campaigner.



see also