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...
Founded as part of the legacy of Anne, Lady Dacre. Originally it was an almshouse and a school for poor children.
The Hackney Society says: 'Brent House, at 27-9 Devonshire Road (now Brenthouse Road) … was the Salvation Army’s first receiving home in Hackney. It opened in 1889 and was described as "a home for ...
Wrote the forward to the 1942 biography of Octavia Hill by E. Moberly Bell. The Improved Tenements Association was set up in 1900. From The London Journal: "As a concession to the societies, and t...
From Wesley's Chapel and from Kay: The Leys School was opened in Cambridge in 1875; just two years after non-Anglicans were admitted to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. It was intended to...
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