Brewer's: Philanthropist

(The). John Howard, who spent much of his life in visiting the prisons and hospitals of Europe. (1726-1790.) (Greek, phil-anthropos.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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