John Eliot Howard
English chemist
John Eliot Howard (11 December 1807 – 22 November 1883) was an English chemist of the nineteenth century, who conducted pioneering work with the development of quinine .
Howard was born in Plaistow , Essex , the son of Luke Howard a noted Quaker meteorologist and chemist. He worked at the family pharmaceutical manufacturing business of Howards and Sons. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in June 1874. [1]
He was the author of scientific works including The Quinology of the East Indian Plantations (1869–1876) , [2] religious works including a commentary on the book of Hebrews [3] and histories including The Island Of The Saints , [4] about the Reformation in Ireland .
Howard was originally a Quaker , but became connected with Christians meeting at the new Brooks Street Meeting House in Tottenham , now Brook Street Chapel , which was founded in 1838–1839 by a number of other Christians including Howard's brother Robert; his father Luke (the 'namer of clouds') helped to finance the building of the chapel: a portrait of the father and son hangs in the National Portrait Gallery . [5]
Howard married Maria Crewdson on 9 September 1830 [6] and the couple had nine children, including Joseph Howard , who was later Liberal MP for Tottenham . The family lived at Lord's Meade, Lordship Lane , Tottenham. Howard died in Edmonton , London at the age of 76 and is buried in Tottenham Cemetery . One of his grandchildren was the ornithologist, Henry Eliot Howard .
The genus Howardia of the Rubiaceae was dedicated to him. [7]
References
- ↑ "Library and Archive catalogue" . The Royal Society . Retrieved 18 October 2010 . [ permanent dead link ]
- ↑ Howard, J.E., The Quinology of the East Indian Plantations on WorldCat
- ↑ John Eliot Howard (1872). The Epistle to the Hebrews: A Revised Translation, with Notes . Yapp and Hawkins.
- ↑ John Eliot Howard (1855). The island of the saints: or Ireland in 1855 . Seeleys.
- ↑ Luke Howard; John Eliot Howard (right) . National Portrait Gallery, London.
- ↑ Tollis genealogy Archived 2011-07-17 at the Wayback Machine . Tolliss.com (2007-07-08). Retrieved on 2012-07-15.
- ↑ G. S. Boulger, ‘Howard, John Eliot (1807–1883)’ , rev. Max Satchell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2010.
- ↑ International Plant Names Index . Howard .
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