of inclination for the sport, I know not, but from that day I became less and less a practitioner of that 'cruel fishing'." Works Notes on a visit made to some of the prisons in Scotland and the North of England in company with Elizabeth Fry; with some general observations on the subject of prison discipline (1819) Observations on the peculiarities of the Religious Society of Friends (1824) Essays on the Evidences, Doctrines and Practical Operations of Christianity (1825) History, Authority and Use of the Sabbath, (1831) The Moral Character of Jesus Christ (1832) A Winter in the West Indies (1840) Religion and the New Testament (1843) in 2 volumes: vol. 1, vol. 2 See also Gurney family (Norwich) Gurney's bank References External links Biography of Joseph John Gurney Sermons by Gurney and his followers from the Quaker Homiletics Online Anthology Verily Anderson, family biographer . English bankers Burials in Norfolk English Quakers People from Norwich (district) Quaker evangelicals Quaker theologians Quaker writers 1788 births 1847 deaths Joseph John 19th-century British businesspeople