Inspired by the ground-breaking work of Elizabeth Fry, Scotland’s first Inspector of Prisons, Frederick Hill was allocated the first Inspector of Prisons for Scotland. He was so shocked by the dire and dehumanising conditions in Stirling’s Tolbooth.
He condemned it as “The worst prison in Britain.” He and other Reformers forced Stirling’s County Prison Board to build a new County Jail – better known today, as The Old Town Jail.