Person Howard; John (1726 - 1790) Howard John 1726 - 1790 British Male Hackney, London, England 02 September 1726 Kherson, Ukraine 20 January 1790 Burial: Dophinovka [Stepanovka], Ukraine

Cardington, Bedfordshire Old Broadstreet, London (1756)

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 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 Fellow 13/05/1756 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). ©The Royal Society International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://pictures.royalsociety.org/image-rs-13930 2 Sep 1726 - 20 Jan 1790 NA5272 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 17/03/2026 RS_NET\VirginiaM Yes cce18cc4-c130-475f-8d37-24152b66a1e0