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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English Hedonists
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, ...
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