The site at Millbank was originally purchased in 1799 from the Marquess of Salisbury for # 12,000 by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, acting on behalf of the Crown, for the erection of his proposed Panopticon prison as Britain's new National Penitentiary.
The site at Millbank was originally purchased in 1799 from the Marquess of Salisbury for # 12,000 by the philosopher Jeremy Bentham for the erection of his proposed Panopticon prison as Britain's new National Penitentiary. The Marquess of Salisbury were acting on behalf of the Crown.