. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... our. HOtJEL, John, a French painter andengraver, was born, at Rouen, in ;studied painting under Descamps andCasanova, and engraving under Le More;and died in 1813. He is the author, aswell as artist, of Picturesque Travels inSicily, Malta, and Lipari, four folio vol-umes, with 264 plates; and also of a Nat-ural History, with 18 plates, of the twoelephants in the Paris Museum. HOUGH, John,a native of Middlesex,was born in 1651; was educated at Mag-dalen College, Oxford; and obtaine
. A dictionary of biography; comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations, and professions ... our. HOtJEL, John, a French painter andengraver, was born, at Rouen, in ;studied painting under Descamps andCasanova, and engraving under Le More;and died in 1813. He is the author, aswell as artist, of Picturesque Travels inSicily, Malta, and Lipari, four folio vol-umes, with 264 plates; and also of a Nat-ural History, with 18 plates, of the twoelephants in the Paris Museum. HOUGH, John,a native of Middlesex,was born in 1651; was educated at Mag-dalen College, Oxford; and obtained aprebend of Worcester, and the rectory ofTernsford, in Bedfordshire. In 1687 heimmortalized himself by the noble standwhich, on being elected president of Mag-dalen College, he made against James wished to intrude upon the college apopish president. After the Revolutionhe was made bishop of Oxford, whencehe was translated to Litchfield, and thenceto Worcester. The archbishopric of Can-terbury he declined. He died in 1743,honoured for his patriotism, piety, nninit-icence, and hospitality. HOW 829. HOWARD, John, was born, in 1726,at Hackney, and was bound apprenticeto a grocer by his guardians; but, beingpossessed of a fortune, he purchased hisindentures, and made two tours on the continent; one of them for the purpose ofviewing the ruins of Lisbon. Having losthis first wife, who was much older thanhimself, and whom he married out of grat-itude for her attention during sickness,he made a second choice in 1758. Forseveral years he resided on his estate atCardington, near Bedford, occupied ineducating his son, and in executing plansto render comfortable the situation jf histenants and labomers. He had alreadyobtained experimentally some knowledgeof a prison, having been captured on hisreturn to Lisbon, and confined in France;but his appointment, in 1773, to the ofliceof high sheriff of Bedford, induced him tolook more narrowly into the subject, withthe hope of ameliorating
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