John Eliot Howard

British chemist (1807-1883).

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. 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. He was the author of scientific works including The Nueva Quinologia of Pavon (1862) an