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Sponging-house

A sponging-house was a place of temporary confinement for debtors in the United Kingdom.

Notable sponging-house residents
Michael Arne - composer • Henry Fielding – author • Benjamin Flower - journalist • Theodore Edward Hook – author • Joseph Lancaster - educational reformer • Andrew Matveof - ambassador of czar Peter the GreatGeorge Morland – painter • Fanny Murray - courtesan • John Murray – Universalist minister • Robert Murray - financier • William Paget - actor • Gilbert Stuart – painter ==See also==
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