单词 | Howard, John |
释义 | John Howard1/ˈhaʊəd / (1726–90), English philanthropist and prison reformer. His tour of British prisons in 1773 culminated in two Acts of Parliament setting down sanitary standards; his work The State of Prisons in England and Wales (1777) gave further impetus to the movement for improvements in prisons. John Howard2/ˈhaʊəd / (B.1939), Australian Liberal statesman, prime minister 1996–2007 with a Liberal-National Party coalition; full name John Winston Howard. |
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