Lincoln
Cards (24)
- Who was the Methodist preacher whose father was imprisoned as a debtor in Lincoln Gaol?
- Approximately how many people were in prison in the middle of the 18th Century?
- What percentage of prisoners died every year of diseases like typhus in the late 18th century?
- Who waited a year before being transported from Lincoln’s Georgian prison to Australia in 1824 for burglary?
- How many prisoners were sent to Australia from Lincoln mostly for crimes involving theft or protests?
- What were the two places in Lincoln Castle that held prisoners in the 18th Century?
- In what year was the new Georgian Prison built, designed by William Lumby?
- In what year was a new debtor’s yard added alongside separate exercise yards for male and female prisoners?
- What did the Prisons Act of 1839 lead to being demolished and replaced in 1848?
- What was the new prison called that replaced the Felon’s Wing in 1848?
- In what year was there a typhoid outbreak?
- What ended in Lincoln Castle in 1868 after the passing of the Capital Punishment Amendment Act?
- Who was the governor of the prison between 1799 and 1830?
- Who was the first person to be executed in Cobb Hall on 15th March 1817?
- How many people were executed in Cobb Hall up to 1859?
- Who was the first of four people to be executed between 1868 and 1877 after public hangings were banned?
- In what year was Lincoln’s Victorian Prison finally closed?
- Name someone who was imprisoned in Lincoln Castle in the 17th Century.
- In what year did the prisoner reformer John Howard visit the prison?
- Who conducted daily chapel services in the Victorian Prison for 35 years?
- How many male and female inmates was the Victorian prison designed to hold?
- In what year was the Penitentiary Act passed?
- What legislation was passed in 1869 that impacted the population of Lincoln’s Victorian Prison?
- Who took full control of all prisons after the 1877 Prison’s Act?