John Howard

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John Howard was an 18th-century English philanthropist and prison reformer renowned for his pioneering efforts to improve conditions in jails and promote humanitarian penal reforms.

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John Howard canonical 4

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf human
philanthropist
prison reformer
social reformer
activeYearsEndYear 1790
activeYearsStartYear 1770
causeOfDeath typhus
commemoratedBy monuments in various British towns
statue in St Paul’s Cathedral
countryOfCitizenship Kingdom of Great Britain
dateOfBirth 1726-09-02
dateOfDeath 1790-01-20
describedBySource The State of the Prisons in England and Wales
ethnicGroup English
familyName Howard
fieldOfWork penology
public health
social reform
givenName John
hasHeritageDesignation figure of national historical importance in the United Kingdom
hasPart Howard League for Penal Reform (named in his honour)
influenced Elizabeth Fry
penal reform movements in Europe
knownFor advocating sanitary reforms in jails
campaigning for more humane prison conditions
influencing 18th-century penal reform legislation in Britain
inspecting prisons across Europe
languageOfWorkOrName English
mannerOfDeath disease
movement penal reform
prison reform
notableWork The State of the Prisons in England and Wales
occupation philanthropist
prison reformer
social activist
placeOfBirth England
London Borough of Hackney
surface form: Hackney

Middlesex, England
surface form: Middlesex
placeOfDeath Kherson
Russian Empire
positionHeld High Sheriff of Bedfordshire
religiousAffiliation Protestantism
residence Bedfordshire
sexOrGender male
startTime 1773

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Description of subject: John Howard was an 18th-century English philanthropist and prison reformer renowned for his pioneering efforts to improve conditions in jails and promote humanitarian penal reforms.

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Cesare Beccaria influenced John Howard
Howard League for Penal Reform (named in his honour) namedAfter John Howard
subject surface form: Howard League for Penal Reform