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See also:FRY, See also:ELIZABETH (178o-1845) , See also:English philanthropist; and, after See also:Howard, the See also:chief See also:promoter oI See also:prison reform in' See also:Europe, was See also:born in See also:Norwich on the 21St of May 1780. Her See also:father, See also:John See also:Gurney, afterwards of Earlham See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, a wealthy See also:merchant and banker, represented an old See also:family which for some generations had belonged to the Society of See also:Friends. While still a girl she gave many indications of the benevolence of disposition,clearness and See also:independence of See also:judgment, and strength of purpose, for which she was afterwards so distinguished; but it was not until after she had entered her eighteenth See also:year that her See also:religion assumed a decided See also:character, and that she was induced, under the See also:preaching of the See also:American Quaker, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William Savery, to become an See also:earnest and enthusiastic though never fanatical " Friend." In See also:August 1800 she became the wife of See also:Joseph Fry, a See also:London merchant.
Amid increasing family cares she was unwearied in her See also:attention to the poor and the neglected of her neighbourhood; and in 1811 she was acknowledged by her co-religionists as a " See also:minister," an See also:honour and responsibility for which she was undoubtedly qualified, not only by vigour of intelligence and warmth of See also:heart, but also by an altogether unusual See also:faculty of clear, fluent and persuasive speech. Although she had made several visits to Newgate prison as See also:early as See also:February 1813, it was not until nearly four years afterwards that the See also:great public See also:work of her See also:life may be said to have begun. The association for the Improvement of the See also:Female Prisoners in Newgate was formed in See also:April 1817. Its aim was the much-needed See also:establishment of some of what are now regarded as the first principles of prison discipline, such as entire separation of the sexes, See also:classification of criminals, female supervision for the See also:women, and adequate See also:provision for their religious and See also:secular instruction, as also for their useful employment. The ameliorations effected by this association, and largely by the See also:personal exertions of Mrs Fry, soon became obvious, and led to a rapid See also:extension of similar methods to other places. In 1818 she, along with her See also:brother, visited the prisons of See also:Scotland and the See also:north of See also:England; and the publication (1819) of the notes of this tour, as also the cordial recognition of the value of her work by the See also:House of See also:Commons See also:committee on the prisons of the See also:metropolis, led to a great increase of her See also:correspondence, which now extended to See also:Italy, See also:Denmark and See also:Russia, as well as to all parts of the See also:United See also:Kingdom. Through a visit to See also:Ireland, which she made in 1827, she was led to See also:direct her attention to other houses of detention besides prisons; and her observations resulted in many important improvements in the See also:British See also:hospital See also:system, and in the treatment of the insane. In 1838 she visited See also:France, and besides conferring with many of the leading prison officials, she personally visited most of the houses of detention in See also:Paris, as well as in See also:Rouen, See also:Caen and some other places. In the following year she obtained an See also:official permission to visit all the prisons in that See also:country; and her tour, which extended from See also:Boulogne and See also:Abbeville to See also:Toulouse and See also:Marseilles, resulted in a See also:report which was presented to the minister of the interior and the See also:prefect of See also:police. Before returning to England she had included See also:Geneva, See also:Zurich, See also:Stuttgart and See also:Frankfort-on-See also:Main in her inspection. The summer of 184o found her travelling through See also:Belgium, See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland and See also:Prussia on the same See also:mission; and in 1841 she also visited See also:Copenhagen. In 1842, through failing See also:health, Mrs Fry was compelled to forgo her plans for a still more widely extended activity, but had the See also:satisfaction of See also:hearing from almost every See also:quarter of Europe that the authorities were giving increased See also:practical effect to her See also:suggestion. In 1844 she was seized with a lingering illness, ofwhich she died on the 12th of See also:October 1845. She was survived by a numerous family, the youngest of whom was born in 1822.
Two interesting volumes of See also:Memoirs, with Extracts from her See also:Journals and Letters, edited by two of her daughters, were published in 1847. See also Elizabeth Fry, by G. See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
King See also:Lewis (1910).
End of Article: FRY, ELIZABETH (178o-1845)
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