Notable Inmates
- Claude de la Colombière
- Richard Baxter
- Thomas Brown
- Marc Isambard Brunel (engineer, imprisoned 1821, for debt)
- William Combe
- Edmund Curll
- Alexander Davison (imprisoned for fraud, 1804)
- John Galt (imprisoned c. 1829)
- Robert Gouger
- Emma, Lady Hamilton
- Thomas Curson Hansard
- Benjamin Haydon
- Henry Hetherington
- Alexander Holborne
- William Hone
- Jeremiah Lear (stockbroker father of Edward Lear) (bankrupt, c. 1816)
- Frederick John Manning (Coroner of the Verge 1836 -1853. Imprisoned as a debtor 1853 - 1855)
- John Pell
- John Penry (martyr, briefly incarcerated before his execution in 1593)
- Moses Pitt - publisher who, in 1691, published The Cry of the Oppressed, a moving appeal on behalf of himself and all prisoners for debt across the nation.
- Edward Henry Purcell, grandson of Henry Purcell, organist, printer, and music publisher, imprisoned for debt, 1761)
- Mary Robinson (poet, imprisoned with husband for his debts, 1775)
- Robert Recorde (imprisoned for debt, he died in the prison in 1558)
- John Rushworth
- Christopher Smart
- Charlotte Turner Smith (poet, imprisoned 1784 with her husband Benjamin, for his debts)
- William Smith (geologist, imprisoned for debt, released 1819)
- John Horne Tooke
- John Wilkes
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