John Howard
1726?–90
Philanthropist. Apprenticed to a firm of wholesale grocers. Inherited sufficient funds from his father and his first wife to move to his father’s estate at Cardington, Bedfordshire, in 1756. Rebuilt most of the houses in Cardington for the benefit of his tenants. High sheriff of Bedfordshire, 1773. Undertook an extensive survey of gaols, and recommended penal reforms. Meteorological observer. FRS 1756.
Source
ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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