Gurney, JOSEPH JOHN

Gurney, JOSEPH JOHN, a philanthropic Quaker, born at Earlham Hall, near Norwich, August 2, 1788, was educated privately at Oxford, and in 1818 became a minister of the Society of Friends. His life was devoted to benevolent enterprises, including the prison reforms of his sister, Mrs Fry. He died January 4, 1847. Among his works are Prison Discipline (1819), Religious Peculiarities of the Society of Friends (1824), and A Winter in the West Indies (1840). See Hare, The Gurneys of Earlham (1895).