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Alternative Names   Millbank Penitentiary (includes Shorncliffe Barracks, 1849-52)

Prison Type   Convict Prison

Date opened   1816

Date closed   1886 [1890]

Location   Pimlico   London, Pimlico

Map location   exact or closely approximate

County   Middlesex

Critical Remarks

First opened as a penitentiary, for convicts sentenced to terms of imprisonment, or for those sentenced to transportation but had their sentences commuted to imprisonment because they seemed promising material. A cholera outbreak in 1824 meant the prison closed for a short period and the prisoners sent to specially commissioned hulks at Woolwich, the men to the Dromedary (2050) and the Ethalion, and the women to the Narcissus and the Heroine. The Millbank Prison Act 1843 converted the penitentiary into a prison, intended to serve the purpose of a depot for receiving newly convicted felons before dispatching them to other convict prisons, hulks or transport ships to serve their sentences. In 1849, Millbank’s function changed again and it began to be used for male convicts serving the first (probationary) part of their sentence in separate confinement as well as for those who were in need of another period of separate confinement after misbehaviour at public works prisons (ie. penal class). Female convicts continued to be confined here, all females until the opening of Brixton Prison in 1853, when it was restricted to probationary and penal classes. Between 1849-52, a cholera outbreak at the prison led to the removal of part of the establishment to Shorncliff Barracks in Kent. In 1870-71, the number of male convicts confined for any time in Millbank was dramatically reduced, in practice limited to who professed to be Roman Catholics and in the probationary class, as well as a small number of all religious persuasions serving the last part of their sentence. At the same time, several pentagons were appropriated for military prisoners. In 1880, Millbank was selected to receive “star class” convicts (those with no previous convictions) for their probationary period. In 1882, it was decided to convert Millbank into a local prison for use until the completion of Wormwood Scrubs (see IDs 1012 and 633): military prisoners were removed to Brixton Prison (ID 1006, lately transferred to the War Office); male convicts in separate confinement were sent to Wormwood Scrubs (leaving only those involved in industries); local prisoners began to be received from October 1883; and female convicts were removed in 1884. On 1 May 1886, Millbank was officially handed over to the local prison authorities and its convict function ended (see ID 276).

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Alternative Names   Millbank Penitentiary (includes Shorncliffe Barracks, 1849-52)

Prison Type   Convict Prison

Date opened   1816

Date closed   1886 [1890]

Location   Pimlico   London, Pimlico

Map location   exact or closely approximate
Lat.   51.491389  Long.   -0.128889

County   Middlesex

Image Attribution   'Bird's-eye view of Millbank Prison', in Mayhew and Binny, Criminal Prisons of London (1862), p. 232.

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Critical Remarks

First opened as a penitentiary, for convicts sentenced to terms of imprisonment, or for those sentenced to transportation but had their sentences commuted to imprisonment because they seemed promising material. A cholera outbreak in 1824 meant the prison closed for a short period and the prisoners sent to specially commissioned hulks at Woolwich, the men to the Dromedary (2050) and the Ethalion, and the women to the Narcissus and the Heroine. The Millbank Prison Act 1843 converted the penitentiary into a prison, intended to serve the purpose of a depot for receiving newly convicted felons before dispatching them to other convict prisons, hulks or transport ships to serve their sentences. In 1849, Millbank’s function changed again and it began to be used for male convicts serving the first (probationary) part of their sentence in separate confinement as well as for those who were in need of another period of separate confinement after misbehaviour at public works prisons (ie. penal class). Female convicts continued to be confined here, all females until the opening of Brixton Prison in 1853, when it was restricted to probationary and penal classes. Between 1849-52, a cholera outbreak at the prison led to the removal of part of the establishment to Shorncliff Barracks in Kent. In 1870-71, the number of male convicts confined for any time in Millbank was dramatically reduced, in practice limited to who professed to be Roman Catholics and in the probationary class, as well as a small number of all religious persuasions serving the last part of their sentence. At the same time, several pentagons were appropriated for military prisoners. In 1880, Millbank was selected to receive “star class” convicts (those with no previous convictions) for their probationary period. In 1882, it was decided to convert Millbank into a local prison for use until the completion of Wormwood Scrubs (see IDs 1012 and 633): military prisoners were removed to Brixton Prison (ID 1006, lately transferred to the War Office); male convicts in separate confinement were sent to Wormwood Scrubs (leaving only those involved in industries); local prisoners began to be received from October 1883; and female convicts were removed in 1884. On 1 May 1886, Millbank was officially handed over to the local prison authorities and its convict function ended (see ID 276).

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Prisoner Statistics

Year 1818

Annual   -  

Daily Census   -   232

Year 1824

Annual   -  

Daily Census   -   147

Year 1828

Annual Confined   -   836

Daily Census   -   694

Year 1833

Annual Confined   -   765

Daily Census   -   614

Year 1838

Annual Confined   -   1356

Daily Census   -   536

Year 1843

Annual Confined   -   2647

Daily Census   -   1043

Year 1848

Annual Confined   -   5266

Daily Census   -   1416

Year 1853

Annual Confined   -   2513

Daily Census   -   1252

Year 1858

Annual Confined   -   3471

Daily Census   -   867

Year 1863

Annual Confined   -   3751

Daily Census   -   1017

Year 1868

Annual Confined   -   2206

Daily Census   -   1008

Year 1873

Annual Confined   -   4084

Daily Census   -   1069

Year 1878

Annual Confined   -   3768

Daily Census   -   1022

Year 1883

Annual Confined   -   531

Daily Census   -   172

Principal Primary Sources

  • Account of Gaols, Houses of Correction or Penitentiaries in the United Kingdom, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.371), p.32
  • Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fourth Report (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXI.1), p.13; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Fifth Report (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXV.1), p.192; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Sixth Report (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 2, IV.1), p.225; Inspectors of Prisons of Great Britain I. Home District, Seventh Report (Parl. Papers, 1842, XX.1), p.147
  • Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1816 (Parl. Papers, 1817, XVI.329); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1817 (Parl. Papers, 1818, XVI.221); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1818 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.333); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1819 (Parl. Papers, 1820, XII.361); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1820 (Parl. Papers, 1821, X.379); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1821 (Parl. Papers, 1822, XXII.323); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1822 (Parl. Papers, 1823, V.365); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1824 (Parl. Papers, 1825, XV.153); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, February 1826 (Parl. Papers, 1826, XXIV.531); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1826 (Parl. Papers, 1826-27, XX.653); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1827 (Parl. Papers, 1828, XX.319); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1828 (Parl. Papers, 1829, V.41); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1829 (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIII.387); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1830 (Parl. Papers, 1830-31, VIII.251); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1831 (Parl. Papers, 1831-32, XXXIII.551); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1832 (Parl. Papers, 1833, XXVIII.659); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1833 (Parl. Papers, 1834, XLVII.213); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1834 (Parl. Papers, 1835, XLV.221); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1835 (Parl. Papers, 1836, XLII.223); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1836 (Parl. Papers, 1837, XLVI.305); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1837 (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XLII.311); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1838 (Parl. Papers, 1839, XXXVIII.403); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1839 (Parl. Papers, 1840, XXXVIII.679); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1840 (Parl. Papers, 1841 Session 1, XVIII.649); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1841 (Parl. Papers, 1842, XXXII.623); Report of Committee of General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1842 (Parl. Papers, 1843, XLIII.491); Inspectors of Millbank Prison. Report, 1843 (Parl. Papers, 1844, XXVIII.1); Inspectors of Millbank Prison. Second Report, 1844 (Parl. Papers, 1845, XXV.1); Inspectors of Millbank Prison. Third Report, 1845 (Parl. Papers, 1846, XX.1); Inspectors of Millbank Prison. Fourth Report, 1846 (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, XXXIV.1); Inspectors of Millbank Prison. Fifth Report, 1847 (Parl. Papers, 1847-48, XXXIV.17); Inspectors of Millbank Prison. Sixth Report, 1848-49 (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXIX.55); Inspectors of Millbank Prison. Report, 1849 (Parl. Papers, 1850, XXIX.73)
  • "Report on Millbank Prison", Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank and Portland Prisons, and Hulks, 1850 (Parl. Papers, 1851, XXVIII.1); Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth and Dartmoor Prisons, and Hulks, 1851 (Parl. Papers, 1852, XXIV.197), p.107; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Hulks, 1853 (Parl. Papers, 1854, XXXIII.181), p.83; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Hulks, 1854 (Parl. Papers, 1854-55, XXV.33), p.85; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Hulks, 1855 (Parl. Papers, 1856, XXXV.1), p.73; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Hulks, 1856 (Parl. Papers, 1857 Session 2, XXIII.65), p.41; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, 1857 (Parl. Papers, 1857-58, XXIX.483), p.43; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, 1858 (Parl. Papers, 1859 Session 2, XIII P.1.191), p.55; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, 1859 (Parl. Papers, 1860, XXXV.429), p.33; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, 1860 (Parl. Papers, 1861, XXX.237), p.27; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, 1861 (Parl. Papers, 1862, XXV.331), p.41; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, 1862 (Parl. Papers, 1863, XXIV.1), p.43; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, 1863 (Parl. Papers, 1864, XXVI.209), p.47; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Broadmoor, 1864 (Parl. Papers, 1865, XXV.1), p.49; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Broadmoor, 1865 (Parl. Papers, 1866, XXXVIII.1), p.38; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Broadmoor, 1866 (Parl. Papers, 1867, XXXVI.1), p.46; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Broadmoor, 1867 (Parl. Papers, 1867-68, XXXIV.519), p.40; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Criminal Lunatic Asylum at Broadmoor, 1868 (Parl. Papers, 1868-69, XXX.1), p.28; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Convict Establishments at Gibraltar, W. Australia and Tasmania, 1869 (Parl. Papers, 1870, XXXVIII.1), p.27; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Convict Establishments at Gibraltar, W. Australia and Tasmania, 1870 (Parl. Papers, 1871, XXXI.1), p.37; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Convict Establishments at Gibraltar, W. Australia and Tasmania, 1871 (Parl. Papers, 1872, XXXI.385), p.46; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Convict Establishments at Gibraltar, W. Australia and Tasmania, 1872 (Parl. Papers, 1873, XXXIV.1), p.51; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Convict Establishments at Gibraltar, W. Australia and Tasmania, 1873 (Parl. Papers, 1874, XXX.55), p.41; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Convict Establishments at Gibraltar, W. Australia and Tasmania, 1874 (Parl. Papers, 1875, XXXIX.1), p.181; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Convict Establishments at Gibraltar, W. Australia and Tasmania, 1875 (Parl. Papers, 1876, XXXVII.1), p.207; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Convict Establishments at Gibraltar, W. Australia and Tasmania, 1876 (Parl. Papers, 1877, XLV.1), p.219; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Convict Establishments at Gibraltar, W. Australia and Tasmania, 1877 (Parl. Papers, 1878, XLIII.1), p.211; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Convict Establishments at Gibraltar, W. Australia and Tasmania, 1878 (Parl. Papers, 1878-79, XXXV.1), p.210; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Convict Establishments at Gibraltar, W. Australia and Tasmania, 1879-80 (Parl. Papers, 1880, XXXVI.1), p.315; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Convict Establishments at Gibraltar, W. Australia and Tasmania, 1880-81 (Parl. Papers, 1881, LI.1, 51), p.195; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Pentonville, Parkhurst, Millbank, Portland, Portsmouth, Dartmoor, and Brixton Prisons, and Convict Establishments at Gibraltar, W. Australia and Tasmania, 1881-82 (Parl. Papers, 1882, XXXIV.1), p.202; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Millbank, Pentonville, Borstal, Brixton, Chatham, Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Portland, Portsmouth, Wormwood Scrubs, Fulham and Woking Prisons and Convict Establishments in W. Australia, 1882-83 (Parl. Papers, 1883, XXXIII.1, 43), p.172; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Millbank, Pentonville, Borstal, Brixton, Chatham, Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Portland, Portsmouth, Wormwood Scrubs, Fulham and Woking Prisons and Convict Establishments in W. Australia, 1883-84 (Parl. Papers, 1884, XLIII.1, 41), p.71; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Millbank, Pentonville, Borstal, Brixton, Chatham, Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Portland, Portsmouth, Wormwood Scrubs, Fulham and Woking Prisons and Convict Establishments in W. Australia, 1884-85 (Parl. Papers, 1884-85, XXXIX.1, 49), p.65; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Millbank, Pentonville, Borstal, Brixton, Chatham, Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Portland, Portsmouth, Wormwood Scrubs, Fulham and Woking Prisons and Convict Establishments in W. Australia, 1885-86 (Parl. Papers, 1886, XXXV.457, 505), p.77; Directors of Convict Prisons: Reports on Discipline and Management of Millbank, Pentonville, Borstal, Brixton, Chatham, Dartmoor, Parkhurst, Portland, Portsmouth, Wormwood Scrubs, Fulham and Woking Prisons and Convict Establishments in W. Australia, 1886-87 (Parl. Papers, 1887, XLI.725, 773), p.39

Additional Primary Sources

  • Rules and Regulations for Government of the General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1817 (Parl. Papers, 1817, XVI.333); Rules and Regulations for Government of the General Penitentiary at Millbank, 1819 (Parl. Papers, 1819, XVII.339); Select Committee on the Penitentiary at Millbank (July 1823) (Parl. Papers, 1823, V.403); Select Committee on the Penitentiary at Millbank (Parl. Papers, 1824, IV.407); Account of Salaries of Officers in General Penitentiary at Millbank (Parl. Papers, 1830, XXIII.399); Letter to Committee for Management of Millbank Penitentiary, with Report of the Committee (Parl. Papers, 1837-38, XLII.317); Royal Commission on the Management of Millbank. Report, Appendix (Parl. Papers, 1847, XXX.1); Royal Commission on the Management of Millbank. Minutes of Evidence (Parl. Papers, 1847, XXX.81); Letter to Secretary of State by Inspectors of Millbank Prison; Report on the State of Millbank Prison (Parl. Papers, 1847, XLVII.603); George Holford, An Account of the General Penitentiary at Millbank (London, 1828); Arthur Griffiths, Memorials of Millbank and Chapters in Prison History (London, 1875); Henry Mayhew and John Binny, The Criminal Prisons of London and Scenes of Prison Life (London, 1862), pp. 232-273; The Third Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1821), Appendix, p. 52; Fourth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1822), Appendix, p. 47; Fifth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1823), Appendix, p. 60; Sixth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1824), Appendix, p. 79; Seventh Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1827), Appendix, p. 99; Eighth Report of the Committee of the Society for the Improvement of Prison Discipline and for the Reformation of Juvenile Offenders (London, 1832), Appendix, p. 29

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Management

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

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Collection:

Description: Draft letter from Elizabeth Fry to Lord John Russell, re state of prison in Jersey, and re permission to visit women in Mill Bank Penitentiary

Dates: 1835

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: MC 234/14, 678X7

Collection: Quaker letters

Description: Draft letter from Elizabeth Fry to Lord John Russell, re state of prison in Jersey, and re permission to visit women in Mill Bank Penitentiary

Dates: 1835

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 21/1

Collection: Home Office

Description: Prisons entry books, series I, Millbank

Dates: 1847-1849

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM 2/164

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Millbank Prison, Middlesex. Book of questions, suggestions etc.

Dates: 1855-1863

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM 7/223

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Warrants constituting and appointing Convict Prisons etc. Millbank

Dates: 1853

Archive name: Hampshire Archives and Local Studies

Catalogue ref: Q28/4/9

Collection: Hampshire Quarter Sessions

Description: Specimen contract between the Governor of the General Penitentiary at Millbank, Middlesex and a supplier of goods for the convicts in the Penitentiary

Dates: 1816

Archive name: Norfolk Record Office

Catalogue ref: C/Saa 1/25

Collection: Norfolk Quarter Sessions

Description: Letters to the Visiting Justices. Concerning a proposed dietary for Norwich Castle, and a form on the removal to Millbank Prison of convicts sentenced to transportation.

Dates: 1843

Prisoners

Archive name: London Metropolitan Archives

Catalogue ref: MA/G/GEN/1302-1306

Collection: Middlesex Sessions of the Peace

Description: List of offenders sentenced to transportation by the Justices of Middlesex and Westminster, confined in Newgate and then conveyed by the Keeper of Newgate to the Millbank Penitentiary, or to Convict Ships and Hulks. With the Keeper's claim for fees, filed with 11 receipts for the prisoners from the Penitentiary, Ships and Hulks.

Dates: 1831-1840

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 24/1-11

Collection: Home Office

Description: Millbank Prison registers, male prisoners, volumes 1-11

Dates: 1843-1874

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: HO 24/12-14

Collection: Home Office

Description: Millbank Prison registers, female prisoners, volumes 1-3

Dates: 1843-1874

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM 2/165

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Millbank Prison, Middlesex, register of deaths and inquests

Dates: 1848-1863

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM 2/21-57

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Millbank Prison, Middlesex, register of prisoners

Dates: 1843-1886

Archive name: The National Archives

Catalogue ref: PCOM 2/60

Collection: Prison Commission

Description: Millbank Prison, Middlesex, register of prisoners

Dates: 1816-1826

Archive name: London Metropolitan Archives

Catalogue ref: ACC/1865/001

Collection: Millbank Prison

Description: Pardons for several prisoners awaiting transportation

Dates: 1824-1825

Land & Buildings

Archive name: Portsmouth History Centre

Catalogue ref: 780A/1/11/3/12

Collection: Wiltshire family, formerly of Hayling Manor, Hayling Island, Hampshire

Description: Section showing comparative level of buildings of Penitentiary and of river at high and low water from report from Select Committee on Penitentiary at Millbank. Drawn by John Basire.

Dates: 1824

Archive name: Surrey History Centre

Catalogue ref: 1262/45-48

Collection: Diaries of Edward Ryde, Freelance Surveyor

Description: Refers to valuation and sale of Millbank and Fulham Prisons (1888-1891)

Dates: 1888-1891

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