Elizabeth Fry
(1780-1845), Quaker minister and social reformerRegency Portraits Catalogue Entry
Sitter in 8 portraits
Elizabeth Fry was a Quaker minister and social reformer. She began campaigning for prison reform after visiting Newgate prison in 1813, where she found hundreds of female prisoners and their children in crowded, unsanitary conditions. She lobbied to introduce female attendants, a school and paid employment for the inmates. Her success led to a wider campaign of prison inspections and improvements to convict ships. Her humanitarian writings influenced penal reform in Europe and America. In 1821 she founded the British Ladies' Society for Promoting the Reformation of Female Prisoners, the first national organisation for women. She is featured on the five pound bank note introduced in 2002.
by Samuel Drummond
watercolour on ivory, circa 1815
NPG 118
after Charles Robert Leslie
oil on panel, based on a work of circa 1823
NPG 898
by John Cochran, after Charles Robert Leslie
stipple engraving, (1823)
NPG D46117
by John Cochran, after Charles Robert Leslie
stipple engraving, (1823)
NPG D46118
probably by Auguste Thomas Marie Blanchard, after Charles Robert Leslie
line engraving, (1823)
NPG D7613
published by Edmund Fry, after Charles Robert Leslie
stipple engraving, published 1 January 1828 (1823)
NPG D38443
published by The Medici Society Ltd, after George Richmond
chromolithograph, 1913 or before (1843)
NPG D38442
published by The Medici Society Ltd, after George Richmond
chromolithograph, circa 1913 (1843)
NPG D38441
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