(Description) Figure 1 Edmund Frederick Du Cane (1830–1903), an officer in the Royal Engineers with experience of managing convict settlements in Western Australia became a director of convict prisons in 1863, chair of the Convict Prison Directors in 1869, and chair of the Prison Commission for England and Wales in 1878. Du Cane was committed to the achievement of uniformity in prison discipline and has been credited with creating ‘the most severe system of secondary punishment in English history’ (McConville, 1995a, p. 187).

Session 7: Uniformity in prisons and prison education

This black and white photographic portrait features a man seated with one elbow propped on a table. He faces to the right, with his head turned to the left. He has dark hair, a moustache and full sideburns, and wears a velvet jacket over a buttoned waistcoat. A metal implement is fastened to one of his waistcoat buttons.