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Howard (JOHN an English philanthropist)

JOHN, an English philanthropist; born in 1726. thropist; born in 1726. His father, a tradesman, died when his son was about 19 years of age, and left him an independent fortune. In a voyage to Lisbon to view the effects of the recent earthquake. The vessel in which he em- , he was consigned to a French prison. The hardships he first roused his attention to the wrongs of prisoners. his time to the investigation of existing abuses in the management of prisons. He visited most of the English county jails and and in March, 1774, he laid the result of his inquiries before the House of Commons. In 1775 and many Irish, Scotch and continental prisons , and published the result of his investigations . In 1789 he published an " published an "Account of the Principal in Europe." He died of fever in Cherson in South Russia, in 1790.