Editing Newgate Prison (section)

==Notable prisoners==
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Other famous prisoners at Newgate include:
* [[Thomas Bambridge]], warden of [[Fleet Prison]] in the 1720s – imprisoned for [[extortion]] and [[murder]]<ref>{{cite ODNB|id=1255|first=A. A.|last=Hanham|title=Bambridge, Thomas}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://lccn.loc.gov/2012647274 |title=Bambridge on trial for murder by a committee of the House of Commons / engraved by T. Cook from an original painting by Wm. Hogarth in the possession of Mr. Ray |work=Library of Congress |access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref>
* [[George Barrington]], pickpocket – held at least twice in Newgate between 1783 and 1790, before [[Penal transportation|transportation]] to Australia<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.londonlives.org/static/BarringtonGeorge1755-1804.jsp |title=George Barrington 1755–1804 |first1=Deirdre |last1=Palk |first2=Tim |last2=Hitchcock |first3=Sharon |last3=Howard |first4=Robert |last4=Shoemaker |work=London Lives, 1690–1800 – Crime, Poverty and Social Policy in the Metropolis |publisher=London Lives |access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |id2=barrington-george-1746 |title=George Barrington (1755–1804) |volume=1 |year=1966 |editor-first=Douglas |editor-last=Pike |access-date=4 February 2019}}</ref>
* [[John Bellingham]], assassin of the Prime Minister [[Spencer Perceval]] 1812 – hanged in 1812<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/building/palace/estatehistory/from-the-parliamentary-collections/spencer-perceval/portrait-of-john-bellingham/|title=The assassin: John Bellingham|publisher=UK Parliament|access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[John Bernardi]], soldier and Jacobite conspirator – imprisoned without trial in Newgate for forty years<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Bernardi, John|volume=04}}</ref>
* [[Robert Blackbourn]], Jacobite conspirator – imprisoned without trial in Newgate for fifty years<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Taaffe |first=Thomas |title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Robert Blackburne |chapter=Robert Blackburne |encyclopedia=The Catholic Encyclopedia |volume=2 |location=New York |publisher=Robert Appleton Company |date=1907 |chapter-url= http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02590b.htm |access-date=12 September 2016}}</ref>
* [[John Bradford]], religious reformer – burned at the stake at Newgate in 1555<ref>Rounding, Virginia. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/967077639 The Burning Time: Henry VIII, Bloody Mary, and the Protestant Martyrs of London]. 2017. Page 287.</ref>
* [[Giacomo Casanova]], Venetian libertine – imprisoned for alleged [[bigamy]]<ref name=hc>{{cite web|url=https://historycollection.com/18-inhumane-and-notorious-prisons-in-history/3/|title=18 Inhumane and Notorious Prisons in History|first=Larry|last=Holzwarth|date=16 April 2019|access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[Gold dust robbery|Ellis Casper]], who helped to perpetrate the [[Gold dust robbery|1839 Gold Dust Robbery]] – held in Newgate before being transported to [[Van Diemen's Land]] in 1841<ref>Griffiths, A. (1884). The chronicles of Newgate. London: Chapman and Hall, pp. 473–474.</ref>
* [[Elizabeth Cellier]], also known as the "Popish Midwife", [[midwife]] – incarcerated in 1679–1680 during a high treason trial for the alleged "Meal-Tub Plot"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265444812|title=Neither Single nor Alone: Elizabeth Cellier, Catholic Community, and Transformations of Catholic Women's Piety|date=1 March 2012|publisher=Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature| access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[William Chaloner]], currency counterfeiter and con artist – imprisoned multiple times at Newgate between 1696 and his hanging 1699 for [[high treason]]<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/66841|title=Oxford DNB article: Chaloner, William (subscription needed)|last1=Hopkins|first1=Paul|last2=Handley|first2=Stuart|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/66841 |access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[Marcy Clay]], thief and [[Highwayman|highwayrobber]] who dressed as a man, died by suicide before she could be hanged in April 1665<ref name=":02">{{Cite ODNB |title=Clay, Marcy [alias Jenny Fox] (d. 1665), highwaywoman and thief |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-73926 |access-date=2022-04-24 | year=2004 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/73926| isbn=978-0-19-861412-8 }}</ref>
* [[William Cobbett]], Parliamentary reformer and agrarian – imprisoned 1810–1812 for treasonous [[libel]]<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5734|title=Oxford DNB article: Cobbett, William (subscription needed)|last=Dyke|first=Ian|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/5735 |access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Neill Cream]], doctor and blackmailer – tried, convicted, and hanged in 1892 for poisoning several of his patients as the "Lambeth Poisoner"<ref>{{cite book|title=A history of capital punishment: with special reference to capital punishment in Great Britain |first=John |last=Laurence |publisher=S. Low, Marston & Co. |year=1932 |page=125 }}</ref>
* [[Hannah Dagoe]], Irish basket-woman who stabbed a man while a prisoner at Newgate<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=OA17630504|title=Ordinary's Account|date=4 May 1763|publisher=Proceedings of the Old Bailey|access-date=6 December 2023}}</ref>
* [[Daniel Defoe]], author of ''[[Robinson Crusoe]]'' and ''[[Moll Flanders]]'' (whose protagonist is born and imprisoned in Newgate Prison)<ref>{{Citation|last=König|first=Eva|title=Moll Flanders and Fluid Identity|date=2014|url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/9781137382023_3|work=The Orphan in Eighteenth-Century Fiction: The Vicissitudes of the Eighteenth-Century Subject|pages=25–38|place=London|publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan UK]]|language=en|doi=10.1057/9781137382023_3|isbn=978-1-137-38202-3|access-date=2021-10-31|url-access=subscription}}</ref> – held at Newgate in 1703 for seditious libel<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Backscheider|first=Paula R.|date=May 1988|title=No Defense: Defoe in 1703|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/pmla/article/abs/no-defense-defoe-in-1703/1E5F62F79F6120B24C8FD0D17AEBB065|journal=[[Publications of the Modern Language Association]]|language=en|publisher=[[Modern Language Association]]|volume=103|issue=3|pages=274–284|doi=10.2307/462376|jstor=462376 |s2cid=163284949 |issn=0030-8129|via=[[Cambridge University Press]]|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* [[Claude Duval|Claude Du Vall]], highwayman – held in Newgate from December 1669 until his execution in January 1670<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sloughhistoryonline.org.uk/ixbin/hixclient.exe?a=query&p=slough&f=generic_theme.htm&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXMAXHITS_=1&%3Dtheme_record_id=sl-sl-claudeduval&s=7OcACVUq6Jz|title=Transport in Slough: Claude Duval - Gentleman Highwayman|publisher=Slough History Online| access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[Amelia Dyer]] (1837–1896), known as the "Reading baby farmer" – serial killer, hanged 10 June 1896<ref>{{cite book |last=Rose |first=Lionel |year=1986 |title=Massacre of the Innocents: Infanticide in Britain, 1800–1939 |publisher=Routledge |page=161}}</ref>
* [[Daniel Isaac Eaton|Daniel Eaton]], author and activist – imprisoned in 1812–1813 for atheism and blasphemous libel; the subject of the defence offered by [[Percy Bysshe Shelley]] in his essay, ''[[A Letter to Lord Ellenborough]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/newgate-in-revolution-an-anthology-of-radical-prison-literature-in-the-age-of-revolution/ch9-daniel-isaac-eaton-london-1813|title=Chapter 9. Daniel Isaac Eaton, Extortions and Abuses of Newgate; Exhibited in a Memorial and Explanation, Presented to the Lord Mayor |location=London|year=1813}}</ref>
* [[John Frith (martyr)|John Frith]], Protestant priest and martyr – held at Newgate in 1533 before burning at the stake<ref>{{cite web|url=https://librarysearch.williams.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?vid=01WIL_SPECIAL&docid=01WIL_ALMA21114308560002786&lang=en_US&context=L |title=A boke made by John Frith, prisoner in the Tower of London : answeringe vnto M Mores lettur, which he wrote agenst the first litle treatyse that John[n] Frith made concerninge the sacramente of the Body and Bloude of Christ : vnto which boke are added in the ende the articles of his examinacion before the bishoppes of London, Winchestur and Lincolne, in Paules Church at London, for which John Frith was condempned a[n]d after bure[n]t in Smith felde with out Newgate, the fourth daye of Juli, anno 1533}}</ref>
* [[Mary Frith]], alias "Moll Cutpurse", pickpocket and fence in the 1600s – in Newgate multiple times for multiple offenses<ref>{{cite book |title=The Newgate Calendar, Part II (1742 to 1799) |chapter=MARY FRITH OTHERWISE MOLL CUTPURSE, A famous Master-Thief and an Ugly, who dressed like a Man, and died in 1663|url=https://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ngintro.htm |chapter-url=https://www.exclassics.com/newgate/ng25.htm |access-date=2 February 2019}}</ref>
* [[Lord George Gordon]], UK politician after whom the [[Gordon Riots]] are named – died of [[typhoid]] in 1793 in Newgate<ref>{{cite ODNB|url=http://oxforddnb.com/view/article/11040|title=Oxford DNB article: Gordon, Lord George (subscription needed)|last=Haydon|first=Colin|year=2004|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/11040 |access-date=3 June 2011}}</ref>
* [[Jack Hall (thief)|Jack Hall]] – a petty thief executed 1707 remembered only on account of his Gallows Confessional becoming a memorable folk song made popular with the adaptation [[Sam Hall (song)|Sam Hall]] by English comic minstrel, [[W. G. Ross]].<ref>{{cite web |author=Lesley Nelson-Burns |url=http://www.contemplator.com/england/jackhall.html |title=Jack Hall|access-date=6 March 2011}}</ref>
* [[Ben Jonson]], playwright and poet – imprisoned for killing fellow actor [[Gabriel Spenser]] in a 1598 [[duel]]; freed by pleading [[benefit of clergy]]<ref>{{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Jonson, Ben |volume=15 |pages=502–507 |first=Adolphus William |last=Ward}}</ref>
* [[Jørgen Jørgensen]] (1780–1841) – a Danish adventurer, who was on board one of the ships that established the first settlement in [[Tasmania]] in 1801; governor of [[Iceland]] for two months in 1809; a British spy – held in Newgate for theft before [[Convicts in Australia|transport to Tasmania]] in 1825<ref>{{cite book|title=The Religion of Christ is the Religion of Nature. Written in the Condemned Cells of Newgate. |first=Jorgen |last=Jorgenson|location= London |year=1827}}</ref>
* [[William Kidd]], known as "Captain Kidd", pirate and [[privateer]] – hanged at [[Execution Dock]], [[Wapping]] in 1701<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/execution-captain-kidd|title=Execution of Captain Kidd|first=Richard|last=Cavendish|publisher=History Today|volume=51|date=1 May 2001}}</ref>
* [[John Law (economist)|John Law]], economist – sentenced to death at Newgate for murder by duel in 1694<ref name="Letters to John Law">{{cite book |author=Adams, Gavin John|title=Letters to John Law|year=2012|publisher= Newton Page |isbn=978-1-934619-08-7 |pages=xiv, xxi, liii}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Kingsmill (Hawkhurst Gang)|Thomas Kingsmill]] (c1715–1749), leader of the notorious [[Hawkhurst Gang]] of [[Smuggling|smugglers]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishexecutions.co.uk/execution-content.php?key=2063&termRef=Thomas%20Kingsmill|title=British Executions - Thomas Kingsmill - 1749|website=British Executions}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Lloyd (stenographer)|Thomas Lloyd]], stenographer of the U.S. Congress – convicted of seditious libel while imprisoned for debt, and transferred to Newgate Prison for a three-year prison term (1794–1796)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://blog.library.villanova.edu/2011/04/11/a-view-from-behind-bars-the-diary-of-thomas-lloyd-revolutionary-and-father-of-american-shorthand-from-newgate-prison-1794-1796/ |title=A View from Behind Bars: The Diary of Thomas Lloyd, Revolutionary and Father of American Shorthand, from Newgate Prison 1794–1796 |first=Michael |last=Foight |date=11 April 2011 |work=Falvey Memorial Library Blog |publisher=Villanova University |access-date=2 February 2019}}</ref>
* [[James MacLaine]], known as the "Gentleman Highwayman" – held at Newgate during his 1750 trial for robbery<ref>{{cite web|url=https://stairnaheireann.net/2018/10/03/otd-in-1750-death-of-highwayman-captain-james-maclaine/|title=Death of a highwayman: Captain James Maclaine|date=3 October 2018 |publisher= Stair na hÉireann |access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[Thomas Malory|Sir Thomas Malory]] – highwayman, probable author of ''[[Le Morte d'Arthur]]'' – at Newgate 1468–1470 after conviction for conspiracy to overthrow the [[Edward IV of England|king]]<ref>{{cite journal|first=Anne F.|last= Sutton|title=Malory in Newgate: A New Document|journal= The Library|volume= 1|date=1 September 2000|issue= 3|pages=243–262 |doi= 10.1093/library/1.3.243|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/library/1.3.243|url-access=subscription}}</ref>
* [[Catherine Murphy (counterfeiter)|Catherine Murphy]], counterfeiter – the last woman to be officially [[Death by burning|executed by burning]] in Great Britain, in 1789<ref>{{cite news |title=News |newspaper=[[The Times]] |date=19 March 1789 |page=3|issue=1324}}</ref>
* [[Titus Oates]], anti-Catholic conspirator – imprisoned at Newgate (1687–1689) for perjury during the [[Popish Plot]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.20548/page/n547/mode/2up?q=newgate|title= Corbett's Complete Collection of State Trials|volume=10 |page=1079|publisher=T. C. Hansard|year=1811}}</ref>
* [[William Penn]], religious scholar, and later the [[Quaker]] who founded the colony of [[Pennsylvania]] – held in Newgate during his 1670 trial for preaching before a gathering in the street<ref name=hc/>
* [[Miles Prance]], silversmith, alleged witness to the murder of [[Edmund Berry Godfrey]] – imprisoned during 1679 trial in the [[Popish Plot]]<ref>Kenyon, J.P. ''The Popish Plot'' Phoenix Press Reissue 2000, p. 150</ref>
* [[Cephas Quested]], smuggler and leader of [[The Aldington Gang]].  Arrested during the Battle of Brookland 11 February 1821 and hung on 4 July 1821<ref>Anne Roper. ''The Church of Saint Augustine, Brookland''. 25th edition, 1979. Page 28–29.</ref>
* [[John Rogers (Bible editor and martyr)|John Rogers]], Bible translator and religious reformer – at Newgate after conviction of heresy in 1554, and burnt at the stake in 1555<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9RkFAAAAQAAJ&q=John+Rogers+burned+at+the+stake++Noailles&pg=PA691 |chapter=John Rogers, the Proto-Martyr |first=The Rev. Canon |last=Ryle |title=Evening Hours: A Church of England Magazine, Volume II—1872 |year=1872 |editor-first=Rev. E. H. |editor-last=Bickersteth |location=London |publisher=William Hunt and Company |pages =690–691 |access-date=2 February 2019}}</ref>
* [[Jack Sheppard]], thief and jailbreaker – in the early 1700s, escaped from Newgate several times during imprisonment for theft<ref>Defoe, Daniel. [https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14065 ''The History of the Remarkable Life of John Sheppard'']. London: 1724. Retrieved 5 February 2007.</ref>
* [[Ikey Solomon]], successful and infamous fence of the late 18th and early 19th centuries – lodged at Newgate during 1827 trial for theft and receiving<ref>{{Cite Australian Dictionary of Biography |id2=solomon-isaac-ikey-2678 |first=R. C. |last=Sharman |title=Isaac (Ikey) Solomon (1787–1850) |volume=2 |year=1967}}</ref>
* [[Robert Southwell (priest)|Robert Southwell]], [[Jesuit]] priest and poet – held at Newgate for treason before being [[hanged, drawn and quartered]] at Tyburn in 1595<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20518390|title=The Venerable Robert Southwell Poet and Martyr (1560-1595). III|first=J. |last=Hurley|journal=The Irish Monthly|volume= 56|date=1 September 1928|issue=663 |pages=472–479|jstor=20518390 }}</ref>
* [[Owen Suffolk]], [[Confidence trick|con-man]] and later Australian [[bushranger]] – served time for [[forgery]] in 1846 before transport<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=klIFAQAAIAAJ|title=Representing Convicts: New Perspectives on Convict Forced Labour Migration|publisher=Leicester University Press|year=1997|page=45|first1=Ian |last1=Duffield|first2=James|last2= Bradley|isbn=978-0718500757}}</ref>
* [[Jane Voss]] (alias Jane Roberts), highwaywoman and thief – executed in 1684<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.executedtoday.com/2012/12/19/1684-jane-voss-narrow-escapee/|title=1684: Jane Voss, narrow escapee|publisher=Executed Today|access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[Mary Wade]], [[Begging|beggar]] – sentenced to death at Newgate for theft but then [[Penal transportation|transported]], becoming the youngest female convict transported to Australia<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.executedtoday.com/2014/03/16/1789-not-mary-wade-reprieved-at-age-11/ |title=1789: Not Mary Wade, 11-year-old thief |publisher=Executed Today|access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[Edward Gibbon Wakefield]], British politician, the driving force behind much of the early colonization of South Australia, and later New Zealand – served three years in Newgate for 1826 [[Shrigley abduction|abduction]]<ref name="DNZB Wakefield">{{DNZB|last=Fairburn|first=Miles|id=1w4|title=Wakefield, Edward Gibbon|access-date=12 December 2014}}</ref>
* [[Joseph Wall (colonial administrator)|Joseph Wall]], colonial administrator – hanged 1802 for having a British soldier flogged to death<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dib.ie/biography/wall-joseph-a8854|title=Wall, Joseph|publisher=Dictionary of Irish Biography|access-date=10 October 2022}}</ref>
* [[John Walter (publisher)|John Walter Sr.]], publisher, founder of ''[[The Times]]'' – imprisoned for a year (1789–1790) for [[libel]] on the [[Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany|Duke of York]]<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Walter, John|author=Hugh Chisholm|author-link=Hugh Chisholm|volume=28}}</ref>
* [[Oscar Wilde]], briefly held at Newgate in 1895 before transfer to Pentonville.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://forhistiur.net/2006-10-housden/ |first=Martyn |last=Housden|title=Oscar Wilde's imprisonment and an early idea of "Banal Evil" or Two "wasps" in the system. How Reverend W.D. Morrison and Oscar Wilde challenged penal policy in late Victorian England|journal=Forum Historiae Iuris |page=31|publisher=Legal History Forum|date=25 October 2006}}</ref>
* [[Catherine Wilson]], nurse and suspected serial killer – last woman hanged publicly in London, at Newgate in 1862<ref>{{cite book|last1=Beadle|first1=Jeremy|last2=Harrison|first2=Ian|title=Firsts, Lasts & Onlys Crime|year=2008|publisher=Anova Books|isbn=978-1-905798-04-9|page=71 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://real-crime.co.uk/Murder1/DOCWFEM.HTML |url-status=dead |title=Murder Cases – Female W – Wilson, Catherine |work=Real Crime |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050211214951/http://real-crime.co.uk/Murder1/DOCWFEM.HTML |archive-date=11 February 2005}}</ref>