King's Bench Prison was a prison in Southwark, south London, England, from medieval times until it closed in 1880. It took its name from the King's Bench...

The Court of King's Bench, formally known as The Court of the King Before the King Himself, was a court of common law in the English legal system. Created...

The King's Bench Division (or Queen's Bench Division when the monarch is female) of the High Court of Justice deals with a wide range of common law cases...

Jacobites. Dogged by financial issues most of his life, he died in King's Bench Prison in 1726. Ker was born on 8 August 1673, eldest son of Alexander Crawfurd...

In July 1827, the inmates of the King's Bench Prison, a debtors' prison, in Borough, South London, devised an amusement to pass the time which gained the...

others (including the Fleet and King's Bench Prisons) even allowed inmates to live a short distance outside the prison—a practice known as the 'Liberty...

his time already spent in prison. The Lords' sentence of outlawry was overturned. Wilkes was taken to King's Bench Prison in Southwark, south London...

did not stand again for Parliament. In 1827 he was committed to King's Bench Prison for debt, and was released before he died. Born in 1793, Stanton...

Prison (Escape) Act 1706 (6 Ann. c. 12) was an Act of the Parliament of England. It dealt with escapes from the King's Bench Prison and Fleet Prison....

member of parliament in Oxfordshire in 1754. Mock election in the King's Bench Prison Mock trial Garrat Elections – 18th century mock elections in England...

"something will turn up." Micawber was incarcerated in debtors' prison (the King's Bench Prison) after failing to meet his creditors' demands. His long-suffering...

Gray, written in the King's Bench Prison by a minor (London 1790), which is close in title to William Thomas Moncrieff's later "Prison Thoughts: An elegy...

The scheme failed and in 1819 Conolly had Smith committed to the King's Bench Prison for debt and took over the sawmill and Smith's house at Tucking Mill...

King's Bench prison; this meant that he was a King's Bench inmate who, for a fee, was allowed to live outside, within a certain radius of the prison....

imprisoned in the King's Bench Prison on 10 May 1768, his supporters gathered nearby on St George's Fields, London, chanting "No liberty, no King." Troops opened...

while Haydon was himself imprisoned at the King's Bench Prison in Southwark for debt. The conditions at the prison were fairly lenient for the inmates while...

the next election. Mock election in the King's Bench Prison: In July 1827, the inmates of the King's Bench Prison, in Borough, South London, organised a...

greatly embarrassed. He spent the last six years of his life in the King's Bench Prison in Southwark, "where, being reduced to his second childship, for...

at the King's Bench Prison in 1827, he painted the Mock Election inspired by an incident he had witnessed there. The picture was bought by King George...

published by William Bingley. Bingley was jailed in Newgate and then in King's Bench Prison on account of issues number 50 and 51. He was released after two...

adventurer, his later was passed chiefly within the "rules" of the King's Bench Prison. He is chiefly remembered as the author of The Three Tours of Doctor...

to pay his debts, he was confined at Shrewsbury Prison, then transferred to the King's Bench Prison in Southwark. He died there in 1834, a "round-shouldered...

being transferred to the King's Bench Prison in London where he died in 1834. George Riley. Executed by hanging in Shrewsbury prison February 1961. Lee Davies...

time as well as the system of debtor's prisons through his account of the sojourn of Smith in the King's Bench Prison. The Map that Changed the World was...

Alexander Pope, and he was soon recommended to the King's Bench Prison. Although he was in prison, Charles Burney purchased the "Rules" (allowing him...

Musician, who is a Prisoner in the Custody of the Keeper of the King's Bench Prison, in the County of Surry, [...] to deliver in and subscribe upon Oath...

the Strand, London {1780 to 1789) King's Bench Prison (1780 to 1784) House for the Marshal of the King's Bench Prison (1781 to 1782) Argyll House, London...

(1700–1757), scion of another prominent New York family. He died in King's Bench Prison, where he had been sent because of his debts, in 1732. He was buried...

arrested for debt and sent to the King's Bench Prison, and the rest of Mr. Micawber's family soon moves to the Prison too. David continues to visit regularly...

publication." On 31 August 1819 Smith was released from King's Bench Prison in London, a debtor's prison. He returned to 15 Buckingham Street, his home since...