John Howard ( 1726 - 1790 )

Birth: Hackney, London, England (02 September 1726) Death: Kherson, Ukraine (20 January 1790) Burial: A walled field at Dophinovka (Stepanovka), Ukraine Career: Apprenticed to a wholesale grocer in Watling Street; went on a tour of the Continent; High Sheriff, Bedfordshire; took on prison reform studying conditions of prisons and prisoners, prison mortality statistics and the needs of reform and mostly due to his efforts two acts were passed in 1774; published "State of prisons in England and Wales" (1777); visited prisons on the Continent; caught typhus fever from a prison visit in Chersson, Black Sea, and died of it Membership: Fellow Election Date: 13/05/1756.