Joshua Jebb

Joshua Jebb
Born8 May 1793[1]
Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England
Died26 June 1863(1863-06-26) (aged 70)[1]
Occupation(s)military engineer and the British Surveyor-General of convict prisons

Sir Joshua Jebb, KCB (8 May 1793 – 26 June 1863) was a British officer of the Royal Engineers who participated in the Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812,[2] He became Surveyor-General of convict prisons. By 1850, Pentonville Prison which he had designed had become a template for prison construction across the British Empire.[3][4] Michael Ignatieff described Pentonville as "the culmination of a history of efforts to devise a perfectly rational and reformative mode of imprisonment".[5]

Jebb was also involved in designing Woking Convict Invalid Prison, Broadmoor Hospital, a secure mental hospital in Crowthorne in Berkshire, and Mountjoy Prison in the centre of Dublin.

  1. ^ a b Vetch, Robert Hamilton (1892). "Jebb, Joshua" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 29. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 261–262.
  2. ^ Kidd, Kenneth E. (1976). "Jebb, Sir Joshua". In Halpenny, Francess G (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. IX (1861–1870) (online ed.). University of Toronto Press.
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  4. ^ Carey, Hilary M. (14 March 2019). Empire of Hell. Cambridge University Press. pp. 184–185. ISBN 978-1-107-04308-4.
  5. ^ Ignatieff, Michael (1978). A Just Measure of Pain: The Penitentiary in the Industrial Revolution, 1750-1850. Pantheon Books. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-394-41041-8.