John Howard, 1726 - 1790, pioneer prison reformer, author of 'The State of Prisons' 1777 was born in his father's house near this site.
London Borough of Hackney
E5, Lower Clapton Road, 157-9, St. Andrews Mansions
This Neo-Tudor block has a better-maintained twin on the other side of the road to the right. The plaque is on the bricks between the base of the bay window, the white surround of the entrance door and the Lycramobile fascia.
This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
John Howard - E5
Prison reformer. Born Hackney. Travelled throughout the UK and then further a...
This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
John Howard - E5
Hackney Council was created in 1965 from the 3 Metropolitan Borough Councils ...
Greater London Council George Leybourne, "Champagne Charlie", 1842 - 1884, music hall comedian, lived and died here.
{Beneath the WRNS badge:} On this site in January 1918 Dame Katharine Furse GBE established the first headquarters of the WRNS. Women's R...
This building is a rare survivor of John Nash's Regent Street development. English Buildings appreciates it.
By the time we got there (in 2014 - it was not top of our priority list) the plaque/sticker had gone (if it had ever existed outside of P...
The quotation is a variation on Plutarch's 'The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled' from his essay “On Listening".
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