Whitecross Debtors' Prison, 1813 - 1870
Warm-hearted Nell Gwynne, in her will, desired her natural son, the Duke of St. Albans, to lay out £20 a year to release poor debtors out of prison, and this sum was distributed every Christmas Day to the inmates of Whitecross Street Prison.
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EC2, Whitecross Street
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
Whitecross Debtors' Prison
This was on the southern most section of Whitecross Street, immediately north...
Illegitimate son of Nell Gwynne and Charles II. Â Born at his mother's house i...
Eleanor Gwyn, Gwynn, Gwynne, whatever. Â Born Hereford. Rumoured to have lived...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
Whitecross Debtors' Prison
The artist Carrie Reichardt is part of this group, probably its main artist, ...
The plaque is on the east side of the bridge, at about the mid point.
The church of St Dunstan in the East stood on this site from ancient times. Sir Christopher Wren rebuilt the Church after the Great Fire ...
The Freemasons commissioned this memorial to mark the 300th anniversary of The United Grand Lodge of England in 2017 and the centenary of...
The portrait medallions are on the right hand flank wall, on Cumberlow Avenue. Reading left to right: W. F. R. Stanley; Mrs W. F. Stanley...
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