Prison reformer. Born Hackney. Travelled throughout the UK and then further afield investigating the state of welfare in prisons and doing what he could to improve it. Died in Kherson in the Ukraine of ‘gaol fever', a form of typhus. A monument was erected there to mark his life and achievements, and was renovated in 1990 to commemorate the bi-centenary of his death.
The Howard League for Penal Reform, the oldest penal reform organisation in the world, founded in 1866, was named for him.
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John Howard
John Howard, 1726 - 1790, pioneer prison reformer, author of 'The State of Pr...
Started as Ealing Family Housing Association.
The London Metropolitan Archive holds records for the Greenwich Workshop for the Blind, 1875-1960. and explains: "The Greenwich Workshop for the Blind, began as the Workshop for the Blind of Kent,...
Administrator and Trustee of the Putney Pest House Charity, 1862.
Hon. Cecil C. E. Vanden-Bempde-Johnstone. See his brother Francis for family information. Attended Eton, 1869-74.
Poet, writer, playwright. Born Dublin. Irish republican and, aged 16 - 23, volunteer in the IRA. He once described himself as a "a drinker with a writing problem". Collapsed in a Dublin bar and die...
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