John Eliot Howard
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John Eliot Howard (11 December 1807 – 22 November 1883) was an English chemist who conducted pioneering work collecting and analysing cinchona bark which led to significant influence in the quinine industry, particularly within 19th Century British-Indian Plantations.[1]
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.[2]
He was the author of scientific works including The Nueva Quinologia of Pavon (1862)[3] andThe Quinology of the East Indian Plantations (1869–1876),[4] religious works including a commentary on the book of Hebrews[5] and histories including The Island Of The Saints,[6] about the Reformation in Ireland. His concern about issues of religion and science was reflected in his membership in two London organizations from 1872: the Victoria Institute, devoted to that subject[7] to which he contributed thirteen papers,[8] and to the Society of Biblical Archaeology,[9] whose aim was to investigate antiquities of biblical lands.
