Side 1: JOHN HOWARD F.R.S. (Fellow Royal Society) PHILANTROPIST |
Side 2: RULE BRITANNIA. In ex.: 1795 |
Dalton & Hamer 57b (Hampshire, Portsmouth) |
Mm. 29 - Copper - On the edge: CURRENT EVERY WHERE + + + + |
John Howard (1726-1790), born in London, was a philantropist and prison reformer. His reports about the conditions in prisons forced the Parliament to issue the 1774 Goal Act, a law which improved these conditions. |