This was the day of her baptism at Bridewell Hospital Chapel
(where her elder brother had also been christened).
“FamilySearch Internet Genealogy Service”. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
She later wrote a poem on the death of the Rev. John Dobey, chaplain at Bridewell.
Tomlins, Elizabeth Sophia, and Sir Thomas Edwyne Tomlins. Tributes of Affection. Longman and Dilly, 1797.
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Timeline
1555: Bridewell Prison, the first house of correction...
Building item
1555
Bridewell Prison
, the first house of correction for vagrants and beggars, was established in the same building as the recently-founded Bridewell Royal Hospital
a residence for apprentices during their training.
Scull, Andrew. The Most Solitary of Afflictions: Madness and Society in Britain, 1700-1900. Yale University Press, 1993.
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Weinreb, Ben, and Christopher Hibbert, editors. The London Encyclopaedia. Macmillan, 1983.
