John Howard

(1726 c.-1790)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Howard, John, 1726-1790 NRA: Howard John (? 1726-1790) philanthropist and prison reformer DNB: Howard, John (1726?-1790), philanthropist LBT ID: JoHowar1790 VIAF ID: 61639520 LOC ID: n50029041	B/BAP: 1726-09-02 DIED: 1790-01-20
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Philanthropist and associate of John Aikin; he published The State of the Prisons in England and Wales (1777).
REFERENCES TO John Howard: A Review of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, for October 1817 (Edinburgh: James Anderson, 1817) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sir George Beaumont to Samuel Rogers, 13 November 1826 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to Anne Dorothea Bridget Benson Montagu, [Summer 1827] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 William Field, Memoirs of the Life, Writings, and Opinions of the Rev. Samuel Parr, LL.D.; with Biographical Notices of many of his Friends, Pupils, and Contemporaries. 2 vols (London: Henry Colburn, 1828) Ch IV. 1809-1812 Found 1: ¶ 7 Robert Southey to John Jebb, 6 March 1833 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter III 1828 Found 1: ¶ 19 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXXV. 1832-1834 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter VI Found 1: ¶ 83 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter I. Found 1: ¶ 9 Chapter X. Found 2: ¶ 19 ¶ 27 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter XI. 1825-1827. Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1810 Found 1: ¶ 5 Letters: 1827