Evelyn Ruggles-Brise

Sir
Evelyn Ruggles-Brise
Born
Evelyn John Ruggles-Brise

(1857-12-06)6 December 1857
Finchingfield, Essex, England
Died18 August 1935(1935-08-18) (aged 77)
Peaslake, Surrey, England
OccupationPrison administrator
Known forFounding the borstal system
"Borstal System"
Ruggles-Brise as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, February 1910

Sir Evelyn John Ruggles-Brise KCB (6 December 1857 – 18 August 1935)[1] was a British prison administrator and reformer, and founder of the Borstal system.

  1. ^ Priestley, Philip (2004). "Brise, Sir Evelyn John Ruggles- (1857–1935), prison administrator and founder of the Borstal system". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/35864. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Retrieved 18 August 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)