Elizabeth Fry was born in Norwich on the 21st of June 1780. She was the third daughter of John Gurney of Earlham Norfolk and Catherine Bell daughter of Daniel Bell merchant in London. Mrs. Bell was a descendant of the ancient family of the Barclays of Ury in Kincardineshire and granddaughter of Robert Barclay the well-known apologist of the Quakers. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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