Lincoln

• Who was the Methodist preacher whose father was imprisoned as a debtor in Lincoln Gaol?

  John Wesley
• Approximately how many people were in prison in the middle of the 18th Century?

  4000
• What percentage of prisoners died every year of diseases like typhus in the late 18th century?

  25%
• Who waited a year before being transported from Lincoln’s Georgian prison to Australia in 1824 for burglary?

  Mrs Mary Burton
• How many prisoners were sent to Australia from Lincoln mostly for crimes involving theft or protests?

  1200
• What were the two places in Lincoln Castle that held prisoners in the 18th Century?

  The County Gaol (or Old Gaol) and Cobb Hall
• In what year was the new Georgian Prison built, designed by William Lumby?

  1787
• In what year was a new debtor’s yard added alongside separate exercise yards for male and female prisoners?

  1820
• What did the Prisons Act of 1839 lead to being demolished and replaced in 1848?

  The Felon’s Wing
• What was the new prison called that replaced the Felon’s Wing in 1848?

  The Crown Wing – referred to as the Victorian Prison
• In what year was there a typhoid outbreak?

  1851
• What ended in Lincoln Castle in 1868 after the passing of the Capital Punishment Amendment Act?

  Public executions
• Who was the governor of the prison between 1799 and 1830?

  John Merriweather
• Who was the first person to be executed in Cobb Hall on 15th March 1817?

  Elizabeth Wilding
• How many people were executed in Cobb Hall up to 1859?

  38
• Who was the first of four people to be executed between 1868 and 1877 after public hangings were banned?

  Priscilla Biggadike
• In what year was Lincoln’s Victorian Prison finally closed?

  1878
• Name someone who was imprisoned in Lincoln Castle in the 17th Century.

  The Witches of Belvoir or William Chaldwell
• In what year did the prisoner reformer John Howard visit the prison?

  1775
• Who conducted daily chapel services in the Victorian Prison for 35 years?

  Reverend Richter
• How many male and female inmates was the Victorian prison designed to hold?

  42 (12 female and 32 male)
• In what year was the Penitentiary Act passed?

  1779
• What legislation was passed in 1869 that impacted the population of Lincoln’s Victorian Prison?

  Debtor’s Act
• Who took full control of all prisons after the 1877 Prison’s Act?

  Home Secretary