Editing Elizabeth Fry (section)

===Elizabeth Fry Refuge===
With the intention of organising a suitable memorial to Fry, a meeting was held in June 1846, chaired by the Lord Mayor of London.<ref name="fry charity"/> Some early proposals for a statue of Fry—to be placed perhaps in either Westminster Abbey or St Paul's Cathedral—had already been floated. Instead, it was recommended to the meeting that a practical commemoration of her life would be  more fitting. [[Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury|Lord Ashley]], amongst a group of prominent reformers and admirers of Fry, including the [[Edward Stanley (bishop)|Bishop of Norwich]] and the diplomat [[Christian von Bunsen]], promoting adoption of a charitable scheme to honour Fry, told the meeting that founding an [[Poorhouse|asylum]] would be in "perfect harmony with her life, her character, her feelings". Such a project would stand for the nation's gratitude to her and "the sympathy they entertain for her righteous endeavours".<ref name="isba excellent">{{cite book |last1=Isba |first1=Anne |title=The excellent Mrs. Fry: Unlikely heroine |date=2010 |publisher=Bloomsbury Academic; Continuum |location=London |isbn=978-1847250391 }}</ref>{{rp|196–197}}

The proposal met with general support and the first Elizabeth Fry refuge opened its doors in 1849 in the London Borough of Hackney <ref name="EF hostel archive">{{cite web |title=Elizabeth Fry Probation Hostel |url= http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/f042e654-957e-4b7c-8f1d-c977820b518a |website= Discovery |publisher=The National Archives|quote=The Elizabeth Fry Refuge was founded in 1849, following a public subscription undertaken in 1846 shortly after the death of the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry (1780–1845).}}</ref> – initially in a temporary location and then, from 1860, in a fine late-17th-century town house nearby at 195 Mare Street, which the refuge purchased and occupied for the next half century.<ref name="Hackney History Journal">{{cite web |title=195 Mare Street |url= https://hackneyhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/HH_Vol_12.pdf |website= Discovery |publisher=The Friends of Hackney Archives |quote=Hester Johanna (b. 1801), lived on in the house until 1860, when it was purchased by the trustees of the Elizabeth Fry Refuge.}}</ref> It was intended to provide temporary shelter for young women discharged from metropolitan gaols or police offices. Funding came via subscriptions from various city companies and private individuals, supplemented by income from the inmates' laundry and needlework. Such training was an important part of the refuge's work.

In 1924, the refuge merged with the Manor House Refuge for the Destitute, in Dalston in Hackney. The hostel soon moved to larger premises in Highbury, Islington and then, in 1958, to Reading, where it remains today.<ref name="fry charity">{{cite web | publisher = The Elizabeth Fry Charity |title= History |url= https://www.elizabethfry.co.uk/History |access-date=11 February 2022 |date=2020|quote= Elizabeth Fry died in 1845. Wishing to commemorate her work, the Lord Mayor of London convened a meeting at which it was decided to found an institute for ex-prisoners in her memory – the Elizabeth Fry Refuge}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title= Summaries of records created by: Fry, Elizabeth, (1780–1845), penal reformer and philanthropist |url= https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/c/F41829 |website= Discovery |publisher=The National Archives}}</ref><ref name="barrett 2021">{{cite web |last1=Barrett |first1=Elizabeth |title=Elizabeth Fry: The Angel of Prisons |url= https://eastendwomensmuseum.org/blog/2021/8/3/vtydufduudc37pku1ahwb9c3ot24xe |website=East End Women's Museum |access-date=11 February 2022 |date= 10 August 2021}}</ref> The original building in Hackney became the CIU New Lansdowne Club but became vacant in 2000 and has fallen into disrepair. [[Hackney Council]], in 2009, was leading efforts to restore the building and bring it back into use. The building did undergo substantial refurbishment work in 2012 but as of July 2013, the entire building is for sale.{{Update inline |reason=What was fate of the building? |date=February 2022}} The building and Elizabeth Fry are commemorated by a plaque at the entrance gateway.{{citation needed|date=January 2021}}