Chapter Houqua to Howard of H by Brewer's Phrase & Fable

of the curiosity of modern art; not to collect manuscripts - but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain; to take the dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt; to remember the forgotten; to attend to the neglected; to visit the forsaken, and to compare the distress of all men in all countries. His plan is original, and it is as full of genius as it is of humanity. It was a voyage of discovery; a circumnavigation of charity." (John Howard, 1726-1790.)

"The radiant path that Howard trod to Heaven."
Bloomfield: Farmer's Boy.

   The female Howard. Mrs. Elizabeth Fry (1780-1844).
   All the blood of all the Howards. All the nobility of our best aristocracy. The ducal house of Norfolk stands at the head of the English peerage, and is interwoven in all our history.

"What could ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards?
Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards."
Pope: Essay on Man, Ep. iv. line 216.

    What will "all the blood of all the Howards" say to Mr. Walter Rye who, in his History of Norfolk (1885), tells us that "Howard is from hog-ward," and that the original Howards were so called from their avocation, which was to tend the pigs.
   Howard. Mr. Bug, late of Epsom (Surrey), then of Wakefield (Yorkshire), landlord of the Swan Tavern, changed his name (June, 1862) to Norfolk Howard.