| Authorised form of name | Howard; John (1726 - 1790) |
| Dates | 1726 - 1790 |
| Nationality | British |
| Place of birth | Hackney, London, England |
| Date of birth | 02 September 1726 |
| Place of death | Kherson, Ukraine |
| Date of death | 20 January 1790 |
| Dates and places | Burial:
A walled field at Dophinovka (Stepanovka), Ukraine |
| Activity | Career:
Apprenticed to a wholesale grocer in Watling Street; went on a tour of the Continent; High Sheriff, Bedfordshire; took on prison reform studying conditions of prisons and prisoners, prison mortality statistics and the needs of reform and mostly due to his efforts two acts were passed in 1774; published 'State of prisons in England and Wales' (1777); visited prisons on the Continent; caught typhus fever from a prison visit in Chersson, Black Sea, and died of it
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 13/05/1756 |
| Relationships | Son of John Howard, partner in a carpet and upholstery business near Long Lane, London; married his 52 year-old landlady when he was 25, she died not long after; married for a second time when living in Bedfordshire |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Linde Katritzky, 'Coleridge's Links with Leading Men of Science' in NR 1995 vol 49 pp 261-276
Notes:
DNB is source of place names; for birth place it says 'most probably in Hackney' (so there is an element of doubt). |
| Royal Society code | NA5272 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1756/07 | Howard, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/002272 | Howard, John | nd |
| L&P/4/207 | Letter, 'Of cold in Bedfordshire, 22 November 1763' from John Howard to John Canton | 12 April 1764 |
| L&P/4/383 | Letter, 'Of the heat of Bath-waters' from John Howard to William Watson | 1767 |
| L&P/5/208 | Paper, 'Observations on the heat of the ground on Mount Vesuvius' by John Howard | 1771 |
| L&P/7/256 | Letter, 'Education of female nobility in Russia' from Mathew Guthrie to John Howard | 12 October 1781 |
| L&P/7/163 | Paper, 'Heat at various places, 1778' by John Howard | 1780 |