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Name
  
Thomas Bambridge

Role
  
Prison officer

Died
  
1750


Thomas Bambridge

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

Bambridge became warden of the Fleet in 1728. He had paid, with another person, £5000 to John Huggins for the wardenship. He was found guilty of extortion, 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 violation of the law. He was committed to Newgate Prison, and an act was passed to prevent his enjoying the office of warden.

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