Millbank Prison, Westminster, constructed 1812-21 on the plans of Howard and Bentham, so that each of its 1100 cells were visible from the governor's room, was used for solitary confinement preparatory to penal servitude, and as a convict prison until 1886, and demolished 1890.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Millais, Sir John Everett * Miller, Hugh