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...
Socialist propogandist and educationalist. Born at Throgg's Neck, Westchester county, New York. Both her parents were from Scotland, and the family returned there when her father died. She attended...
First founded in Britain in 1823 as the 'Society for the Mitigation and Gradual Abolition of Slavery Throughout the British Dominions'. When slavery was abolished in British dominions the Society w...
Son of Harris Blairman who arrived from Poland in the late 1870s and in 1884 established the antique business, H. Blairman & Sons Ltd. Following active service in the Royal Flying Corp, Philip ...
As a Waterloo resident Margaret worked from about 1972 on community planning in Waterloo. Her main aims have been to increase social housing for families and green open space for everyone. She co...
Concerned for the poor of Lambeth and was a district visitor in 1864 trying to identify families in need. She organized a refuge for women and then started to prepare penny dinners. She also ran mo...
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