Thomas Bambridge

Thomas Bambridge

Thomas Bambridge (d. c. 1750) was a notorious warden of Fleet Prison in England.

Bambridge became warden of Fleet Prison in 1728. He had paid, with another person, the sum of £5000 to John Huggins for the wardenship. He was of particularly evil repute. He was guilty of the greatest extortions upon prisoners, 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 high violation and contempt of the laws. He was committed to Newgate Prison, and an act was passed to prevent his enjoying the office of warden.

External links

* [http://homepage2.nifty.com/~k2/cv/works/holl_rep.html "Ungovernable" prisoners: Fleet Prison during the 1720s]
* [http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-feb/feb27.htm This Day in Georgia History: February 27, 1729]


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