Sir Joshua Jebb, was a British officer of the Royal Engineers who participated in the Battle of Plattsburgh on Lake Champlain during the War of 1812, He became Surveyor-General of convict prisons. By 1850, Pentonville Prison which he had designed had become a template for prison construction across the British Empire. Michael Ignatieff described Pentonville as "the culmination of a history of efforts to devise a perfectly rational and reformative mode of imprisonment".
- Occupation
- engineer, army officer, painter, military officer
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Kingdom of Great Britain
- Born
- May 8, 1793
- Died
- June 26, 1863
