Author: TAYLOR, Thomas
Title: Memoirs of John Howard, Esq., F.R.S., the Christian philanthropist : with a detail of his most extraordinary labours in the cause of benevolence;
Description: Published by John Hatchard & Son, Piccadilly, London, 1836, hardback. Engraved portrait frontispiece; xvi + 439 pages. , Reasonable state, Once alerted to the pityful plight of people confined to prison for debts, John Howard knew no bounds and travelled the length and breadth of Europe to document and more importantly to improve the circumstances in every prison he could find. Far from home, in Kherson, Ukraine, he met his end, falling victim “to the same putrid fever which he had banished from so many prisons”. Mrs. Mary Guthrie, who visited his grave and monument some years after, noticed the irony (code N-44)

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