Thomas Bambridge
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Thomas Bambridge (died 1741) was a British attorney who became a notorious warden of the Fleet Prison in London.[2]
Bambridge became warden of the Fleet in 1728. He had paid, with another person, £5,000 to John Huggins for the wardenship. He was found guilty of extortion, and, according to a committee of the House of Commons appointed to inquire into the state of English gaols, arbitrarily and unlawfully loaded with irons, put into dungeons, and destroyed prisoners for debt, treating them in the most barbarous and cruel manner, in violation of the law. He was committed to Newgate Prison, and an act, Warden of Fleet Prison Act 1728 (2 Geo. 2. c. 32) was passed to prevent his enjoying the office of warden.
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[edit]- ^ The prisoner in irons is thought to be the Portuguese Jacob Mendez Solas, the first prisoner to be jailed for debt in the Fleet wearing double irons. See The Gaols Committee of the House of Commons, National Portrait Gallery. Retrieved 13 September 2009.
- ^ Hanham, A. A. "Bambridge, Thomas". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1255. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
External links
[edit]- "Ungovernable" prisoners: Fleet Prison during the 1720s
- This Day in Georgia History: 27 February 1729
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