Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H

HOSKINS, William (3 son of Abraham Hoskins of Newton park, Derbyshire). b. Norton, Derbyshire 1816; ed. at Camb. univ.; an actor in the provinces 1834; member of Phelps’s company at Sadler’s Wells 1844; then at Olympic; went to Australia 1856, played at Queen’s theatre, Melbourne; manager Ballarat theatre 1858, of Theatre royal, Melbourne 1863, and of Haymarket, Melbourne; rebuilt Theatre Royal, Christ Church, New Zealand; teacher of elocution, Melbourne 1884 to death; (m. (1) 1850 Julia Harland, actress d. New Zealand; m. (2) Florence Colville, actress, she d. about 1881; m. (3) Miss Bowman). d. Melbourne 28 Sep. 1886. Tallis’ Drawingroom Table book, Parts 8 and 12, two portraits; Theatrical Times ii, 297 (1847), portrait; Era 13 Oct. 1886 p. 9.

HOSKYNS, Chandos Wren (2 son of Sir Hungerford Hoskyns, 7 baronet 1776–1862). b. Hereford 15 Feb. 1812; ed. at Shrewsbury and Balliol coll. Ox., B.A. 1834; barrister I.T. 4 May 1838; assumed additional surname of Wren by royal license 15 April 1837; a co.-editor of Journal of R. Agricultural Soc.; M.P. for Hereford 1869–74; contributed Anomalies of Agriculture and many other papers to Agricultural Gazette 1844, &c.; author of Talpa, or the chronicles of a clay farm 1852, 4 ed. 1857; Occasional Essays 1866; Systems of land tenure in various countries 1870. d. 41 Eccleston sq. London 28 Nov. 1876. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Soc. 1877 p. xli; Agricultural Gazette 4 Dec. 1876 p. 544.

HOTHAM, Beaumont Hotham, 3 Baron (elder son of Beaumont Hotham 1768–99, captain Coldstream guards). b. Lullingstone castle, Dartford, Kent 9 Aug. 1794; ed. at Westminster; ensign Coldstream guards 27 June 1810, lieut. 25 Dec. 1813 to 14 Oct. 1819 when placed on h.p.; succeeded his grandfather 4 March 1814; served in the Peninsula 1812–14; general 12 Jany. 1865; M.P. Leominster 1820–41; M.P. East Yorkshire 1841–68. d. Sand Hutton near York 13 Dec. 1870. bur. in family vault at South Dalton 20 Dec., personalty sworn under £500,000, 21 Jany. 1871.

HOTHAM, Sir Charles (1 son of Hon. and Rev. Frederick Hotham 1774–1854, R. of Dennington, Suffolk). b. Dennington 14 Jany. 1806; entered navy 6 Nov. 1818, captain 28 June 1833; served in South America 1845–6; K.C.B. 9 March 1846; commander in chief West coast of Africa 1846–9; min. plenipo. to Argentine Confederation 17 April 1852; lieut. governor of colony of Victoria 6 Dec. 1853, governor in chief there 1 Feb. 1855 to death. d. Toorak, Melbourne 31 Dec. 1855.

HOTHAM, William (eld. child of lieut.-col. George Hotham 1770–1823). b. 30 July 1794; entered navy June 1803, commanded a flotilla in the river Po 1813–14; captain 4 April 1825; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836; retired on half pay 1 Oct. 1846; retired admiral 30 Nov. 1863. d. Clifton, York 22 Feb. 1873.

HOTTEN, John Camden, originally named John William Hotten (son of Wm. Hotten of Clerkenwell, London, carpenter). b. 45 St. John’s sq. Clerkenwell 12 Sep. 1832; placed with John Petheram, bookseller 71 Chancery lane 1846; in the United States 1848–56; a bookseller and publisher at 151B Piccadilly, London 1856 to death, and at 74–5 Piccadilly 1863 to death; published Dictionary of modern slang, cant and vulgar words 1859; A. C. Swinburne’s Poems and ballads 1866 which Moxon had withdrawn from circulation; the first to introduce into England the works of J. R. Lowell, Artemus Ward, O. W. Holmes, C. G. Leland and Bret Harte 1864 &c. d. 4 Maitland park villas, Haverstock hill, Hampstead 14 June 1873. bur. Highgate cemet. 21 June. Bookseller 31 Aug. 1873 pp. 491–3; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. 255, 1237.

HOUGH, Rev. George. b. London 1797; ordained 1824; studied Hebrew under Dr. Wolff 1836; C. of Earl’s Heaton, Dewsbury 1827–8; V. of South Crosland near Huddersfield 1829 to death; originator and sec. of the Almondbury clerical soc. 1828–78; gave considerable sums to church works and charities; author of Annual new year addresses to the parishioners of Almondbury 1840–79; A brief exposition of the book of Revelation. Huddersfield 1878. d. South Crosland 6 June 1879. Hulbert’s Annals of Almondbury (1882) 76, 306–12, 506–7.

HOUGH, William. Entered Bengal army 1805; captain 48 Bengal N.I. to 1 Oct. 1840 when invalided; lieut. col. July 1864; author of Case book of European and native courts martial. Calcutta 1821; On the E.I.Co.’s mutiny acts 1838; Chronological exposition of opinions of writers on military law 1839; A narrative of the army of the Indies in the expedition to Afghanistan 1841; Political and military events in British India 2 vols. 1853. d. Tenterden st. Hanover sq. London 3 Jany. 1865 aged 75.

HOUGHTON, Richard Monckton Milnes, 1 Baron (only son of Robert Pemberton Milnes, M.P. 1784–1858). b. London 19 June 1809; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1831, hon. fellow of his coll. April 1876; M.P. Pontefract 1837–63; D.C.L. Ox. 1854; cr. Baron Houghton of Great Houghton, Yorks. 20 Aug. 1863; F.R.S. 10 Dec. 1868; president Social Science congress, Aug. 1873; hon. LLD. Edin. 23 April 1878; a trustee of British museum 1881; author of Memorials of a tour in Greece 1834; Memorials of many scenes 1840; Poems legendary and historical 1844; Palm leaves 1844; Monographs, personal and social 1873. d. Vichy, France 11 Aug. 1885. Reid’s Life and letters of lord Houghton 2 vols. 1890, 2 portraits; Poetical works of lord Houghton 2 vols. 1876, portrait.

HOUGHTON, Arthur Boyd (4 son of Capt. M. Houghton of H.E.I.C. service). b. 1836; illustrator of the Graphic and Fun; exhibited 10 pictures at R.A., 4 at B.I., and 3 at Suffolk st. 1861–72; associate of Soc. of painters in water colours 1871; illustrated Dalziel’s Arabian Nights 1864–5; Adventures of Don Quixote 1866 and many other works; author of The gods on peace and war, as applicable to the eastern struggle 1877. d. 162 King Henry’s road, South Hampstead, London 23 Nov. 1875. Redgrave’s Dictionary of artists (1878) 225; Art Journal 1876 p. 47.

HOUGHTON, Rev. Henry Hall (3 son of Jeremiah Houghton). b. Dublin 10 Dec. 1823; ed. at Sherborne and at Pemb. coll. Ox., scholar 1841–5, B.A. 1845, M.A. 1848; clerk of Magdalen coll. 1847–68; C. of St. Peter’s, Cheltenham 1849–52; with his uncle rev. John Hall, canon of Bristol, founded at Oxford the Canon Hall and Hall-Houghton prizes for knowledge of Greek Testament, Septuagint and Syriac versions 1868–71 at cost of £11,000; on death of his uncle took name of Hall 1871; gave Church Missionary soc. £4,500 for instruction of native young men in the scriptures; gave hospital for sick Jews at Jerusalem £3,000. d. Melmerby hall, Cumberland 4 Sep. 1889. Record 20 Sept. 1889 p. 922.

HOUGHTON, Rev. William (son of Thomas Houghton, governor of Preston house of correction). b. Preston 17 May 1812; C. of St. Sennen and St. Levan, Cornwall 1848–65; V. of Manaccan, Cornwall 1865 to death; author of Calvinism scripturally examined 1836; Rationalism in the church of England 1863 and 4 other books. d. Manaccan Vicarage 25 Dec. 1870. Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 256.

HOULDSWORTH, John. b. Whitehall, Glasgow 12 April 1807; one of the founders of the Coltness and Dalmellington iron works in Lanarkshire and Ayrshire about 1835; senior partner of various establishments for machine making, iron founding, cotton spinning and weaving; the last provost of burgh of Anderston before it was incorporated with Glasgow; A.I.C.E. 1844. d. Bath st. Glasgow 18 Oct. 1859. Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E., xix, 189 (1860).

HOULDSWORTH, Thomas (2 son of Henry Houldsworth of Gonalston, Notts.) b. 13 Sep. 1771; a merchant and cotton spinner at Manchester and Pontefract; M.P. Pontefract 1818–30; M.P. Newton, Lancs. 1830–2; M.P. North Notts. 1832–52. d. Portland place, Manchester 1 Sep. 1852.

HOULSTON, Thomas (son of Edward Houlston of Wellington, Salop, printer). b. 1804; traveller for his father 1821–35; bookseller at 154 Strand, London 1835–44; partner with John Stoneman at 65 Paternoster row 1844 to 5 April 1856 when the latter died aged 64; partner with Henry Wright at 65 Paternoster row 1857 to death. d. Ryde, Isle of Wight 28 Aug. 1869. Bookseller, Nov. 1869 p. 938; Reg. and Mag. of Biog. Oct. 1869 p. 204.

HOULTON, Sir George (youngest son of Joseph Houlton of Farley castle near Bath, d. 1806). b. Carmarthen 1791; ensign 43 foot 20 Nov. 1806, captain 2 Nov. 1815 to 25 March 1817 when placed on h.p.; received war medal and 10 clasps for service in Peninsular war 1808–14; ensign of yeomen of the guard 25 Sep. 1835 to death; knighted 1835 or 1838, but name never in London Gazette. d. Farley castle 16 Sep. 1862.

HOULTON, Joseph. b. 1789; M.R.C.S. 1811, M.D. Erlangen 1840; surgeon East Norfolk militia; practised at Saffron Walden 1817, at Lisson grove, London 1823; professor of botany to Medical botanical society; with J. Davies edited The London medical and surgical journal 1828; translated F. Magendie’s Formulary for preparation of new remedies 1828. d. 12 Blomfield st. Westbourne terrace, London 14 Jany. 1861.

HOUSMAN, Francis (son of William Housman of St. John’s Wood, London). b. London 3 Jany. 1829; ed. at Merchant Taylor’s sch. 1838 &c.; barrister L.I. 7 June 1852; recorder of Rangoon 1871 to death; author of A selection of precedents in conveyancing 1861. d. Calcutta 19 July 1873.

HOUSTON, John Adam. b. Gwydir castle near Llanwrst, Wales 25 Dec. 1812; ed. at Edin. sch. of design; studied in Paris and Germany; a portrait painter in London some years; exhibited 45 pictures at R.A., 21 at B.I. and 3 at Suffolk st. 1840–8; resided in Edin. from 1841 to 1858 when he began contributing to the Scottish academy; returned to London 1858; exhibited Gallantry, London 1859; Lights and shadows of the wayside 1861; Prospero and Miranda, Edin. 1865. d. 10 Upper Phillimore place, Kensington 2 Dec. 1884. Art Journal (1869) 69–71, 127.

HOUSTON, Rev. Thomas. b. Donegore 1803; teacher in a sch. at Leyhmore near Ballymena 1818; ed. at Academical instit. Belfast 1819; reformed presbyterian minister Knockbraken 8 April 1828 to death; took part in the Arian separation from the synod of Ulster; professor of theology in Reformed presbyterian Theological hall, Belfast 1855 to death; went to U.S. America 1856 where he took a D.D. degree; edited The Covenanter 1830; author of A practical treatise on christian baptism, Paisley 1853; The dominion and glory of the Redeemer. Discourses 1880 and 7 other books. d. Royal hospital, Belfast 27 March 1882. bur. Knockbraken 30 March. Belfast News-Letter 28 March 1882 p. 5.

HOUSTOUN, Sir Robert (5 son of colonel Andrew Houstoun). b. Jordan hill, co. Renfrew 1780; entered Bengal army 1794 and served 25 years; col. 9 regiment light cavalry 1 May 1824 to 1858; col. 4 European light cavalry 1858 to death; governor of Addiscombe coll. 10 years; general 20 June 1854; K.C.B. 10 March 1837. d. Torquay 5 April 1862.

HOUSTOUN, Wallace (son of the preceding). b. 1811; entered navy 2 Dec. 1824; captain 23 July 1847; R.A. 5 May 1865, retired 1 April 1870; retired admiral 1 Aug. 1877. d. 42 Eaton sq. London 17 May 1891.

HOVELL, William Hilton. b. Yarmouth 26 April 1786; a marine trader on coasts of Australia and New Zealand 1813–19; farmer at Narellan 1819; accompanied Hamilton Hume in his overland journey from Sydney to Port Philip 1824–5; one of the first settlers at Western Port 1826; resided at Goulburn from 1829; author of Reply to “A brief statement in connection with an expedition from Lake George to Port Philip. By Hamilton Hume.” Sydney 1855. d. Sydney 1876. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of Dates (1879) 97.

HOWARD DE-WALDEN, Charles Augustus Ellis, 6 Baron (elder son of C. Rose Ellis, 1 Baron Seaford 1771–1845). b. London 5 June 1799; ed. at Eton 1811–14; succeeded his maternal great grandfather as 6 Baron 8 July 1803, claim admitted 1806; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 5 July 1824; envoy extraord. and min. plenipo. at Stockholm 2 Oct. 1832, at Lisbon 22 Nov. 1833 and at Brussels 10 Dec. 1846 to death; G.C.B. 19 July 1838; K.T.S. 1841; succeeded as 2 Baron Seaford 1 July 1845. d. Lesve chateau, Namur, Belgium 29 Aug. 1868.

HOWARD, OF GLOSSOP, Edward George Fitzalan Howard, 1 Baron (2 son of 16 Duke of Norfolk 1791–1856). b. 21 St. James’s sq. London 20 Jany. 1818; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. Horsham, Sep. 1848 to 1 July 1852; M.P. Arundel, July 1852 to Dec. 1868 when the borough was disfranchised; P.C. 8 July 1846; vice chamberlain 8 July 1846 to Feb. 1852; had charge of the Norfolk estates as trustee of his nephew 1861–8 and acted as deputy earl marshal of England 4 Feb. 1861 to Dec. 1868; cr. baron Howard of Glossop 9 Dec. 1869; chairman of Catholic poor school committee 1869–77. d. 19 Rutland gate, London 1 Dec. 1883. bur. in R.C. church of St. Charles of Borromeo at Hadfield near Glossop 11 Dec. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 422–6 (1887).

HOWARD, Charles Wentworth George (5 son of 6 Earl of Carlisle 1773–1848). b. Chiswick, Middlesex 27 March 1814; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1836; M.P. for East Cumberland, July 1840 to death. d. Holker house, Lancs. 11 April 1879.

HOWARD, Edward Henry (3 son of Very Rev. H. E. J. Howard 1795–1868). b. 7 June 1832; ed. at Eton 1844; entered navy 21 June 1845; served in the Baltic 1855; captain 16 Feb. 1864; naval attaché at maritime courts of Europe, Sep. 1874 to Dec. 1876; A.D.C. to the queen 1878–9; V.P. Ordnance committee 1881–4; V.A. 26 Nov. 1885, retired 29 Nov. 1889. d. 16 Granville park, Lewisham, Kent 18 Jany. 1890. Pictorial World, xvi, 147, 165 (1890), portrait.

HOWARD, Frank (son of Henry Howard 1769–1847, R.A., professor of painting to R.A.) b. Poland st. London 1805; ed. at Ely; pupil and assistant to Sir Thomas Lawrence, P.R.A.; consulting designer and modellist to Storr and Mortimer of London, silversmiths; exhibited 43 paintings at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 9 at Suffolk st. 1824–46; obtained prize for “Una coming to seek the assistance of Gloriana,” Westminster hall competition 1843; removed to Liverpool about 1847; published The spirit of the plays of Shakspeare, a series of outline plates 5 vols. 1827–33; author of The sketcher’s manual 1837, 7 ed. 1860; The science of drawing 1839–40. d. Liverpool 29 June 1866.

HOWARD, Greville Theophilus (2 son of 17 Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire 1804–76). b. 22 Dec. 1836; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 30 May 1855; barrister L.I. 17 Nov. 1863; commissioner in lunacy 17 June 1873 to 1877. d. Castle Rising near Lynn, Norfolk 28 July 1880.

HOWARD, Henry. b. 25 July 1802; ed. at Harrow; M.P. Steyning 1824–6; M.P. Shoreham 1826–32; sheriff of Cumberland 1834. d. Thornbury castle, Gloucester 7 Jany. 1875.

HOWARD, Very Rev. Henry Edward John (youngest child of 5 Earl of Carlisle 1748–1825). b. Castle Howard, Yorkshire 14 Dec. 1795; ed. Eton 1805–11 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1834, D.D. 1838; V. of Stainton, Yorks. 5 July 1820; succentor of York cath. with stall of Holme annexed 27 Nov. 1822; R. of Slingsby 1823–33; V. of Sutton in the Forest 1824–33; dean of Lichfield with R. of Tattenhill, Staffs, annexed 27 Nov. 1833 to death; R. of Donington, Salop 11 Feb. 1834 to death; author of Translations from Claudian 1823; The books of Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy according to the lxx, translated with notes 3 vols. 1855–7 and 5 other books. d. Donington rectory 8 Oct. 1868. Guardian 14 Oct. 1868 p. 1148; Burke’s Portrait gallery, ii, 99 (1833), portrait.

HOWARD, Henry Thomas (2 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851). b. 16 Jany. 1808; M.P. Cricklade, Wilts. 1841–7. d. Beauchamp near Gloucester 29 Jany. 1851.

HOWARD, James (2 son of John Howard 1790–1878). b. Bedford 16 Oct. 1821; head of firm of James and Frederick Howard, makers of agricultural instruments at Britannia works, Bedford 1851; member of R. Agric. Soc., on council; member of Farmers’ club; an originator and first president of Farmers’ Alliance 1879; a promoter and director of Agricultural hall, London 1861; M.P. Bedford 1868–74; M.P. Bedfordshire 1880–5; mayor of Bedford 1863 and 1864; sheriff of Bedfordshire 1878; champion of Tenant’s rights 1873; farmed Clapham farm estate, Bedford 1862; took out upwards of 60 patents for agricultural machinery; author of Steam cultivation, its history 1862; Agricultural implement manufacture, its rise and progress 1879 and 20 other works. d. Midland hotel, St. Pancras, London 25 Jany. 1889. bur. Clapham, Beds. 30 Jany. Agricultural Gazette 28 Jany., 4 Feb. 1889; London Figaro 2 Feb. 1889 p. 10, portrait; Farmers’ Mag. xviii, 1–7 (1860), portrait.

HOWARD, James Kenneth (4 son of 16 earl of Suffolk 1776–1851). b. 5 March 1814; précis writer to viscount Palmerston 1835–40 and private sec. to him 6 Jany. 1840 to 2 Sep. 1841; M.P. Malmesbury 1841–52; commissioner of woods and forests March 1855 to death. d. Hajelby near Newbury 7 Jany. 1882.

HOWARD, John (son of John Moore Howard, farmer). b. Bedford 1790; builder and land speculator; erected the Britannia foundry for manufacture of agricultural implements about 1838; invented an improved plough 1839; made over his business to his sons 1851; mayor of Bedford 1858–61, 1863–4 and 1871. d. Caldwell priory 23 Dec. 1878. Times 24 Dec. 1878 p. 7, col 6.

HOWARD, John. b. Burnley Wood, Lancs. 24 June 1824; champion long distance jumper using dumb bells, jumped 28 feet 6 inches Chester race course 1854; jumped 29 feet 7 inches at Lancaster and leaped over a billiard table lengthwise for a wager 1854; the greatest pedestrian of his time, beat Bob Coates 120 yards, Hyde park, Sheffield 1839; beat John Flockton of Leeds 120 yards at Garrick Corner; beat John Walker the Delemere forest stag 120 yards for £25 at Bellevue, Manchester, when 25,000 paid for admission; beat Robert Low of Heywood 100 yards for £25 at Bellevue, time 9–3/4 seconds up hill; beat the Demon, J. Whitehead alias Clark of Oldham 110 yards for £50 at Bellevue. d. suddenly, Dublin hotel, Bradford 14 Oct. 1875. Bell’s Life 16 Oct. 1875 p. 8; Illust. Sporting News (1862) 68, 76–7, 116, 3 portraits.

HOWARD, John Eliot (son of Luke Howard, F.R.S. 1772–1864). b. Plaistow, Essex 11 Dec. 1807; manufacturing chemist with his father at Stratford; studied history of febrifuge alkaloids; purchased a collection of specimens of Peruvian bark at Madrid 1858; mem. Pharmaceutical soc. 1853; F.L.S. 1857; F.R.S. 4 June 1874; V.P. Victoria institute; received thanks of government for his aid in cinchona cultivation in India 1876; author of Eight lectures on the scriptural truths most opposed to Puseyism, 1845, 2 ed. 1847; Illustrations of the Nueva Quinologia of Pavon 1859–62; The Quinology of the East India plantations 3 parts 1869–76; The Epistle to the Hebrews. A translation 1872 and 9 other books. d. Lord’s Mead, Tottenham, Middlesex 22 Nov. 1883. Graphic 29 Dec. 1883 pp. 634, 637, portrait; Trans. Essex Field club, iv, 8–11, portrait.

HOWARD, John Morgan (eld. son of John J. Howard of Swansea). b. Nov. 1837; barrister M.T. 30 April 1858, bencher 16 Nov. 1877; Q.C. 6 July 1874; an editor of the New Reports 1862 to 1865; contested Lambeth 1868, 1874 and 1880; M.P. for Camberwell, Dulwich division 1885–7; recorder of Guildford 15 March 1875 to death; judge of circuit No. 59 (Cornwall), Nov. 1887 to death. d. Chelston Dene, Torquay 10 April 1891. I.L.N. 18 April 1891 p. 499, portrait; Graphic x, 223, 224 (1874), portrait.

HOWARD, Luke (son of Robert Howard, introducer of the Argand lamp, d. Jany. 1812). b. London 28 Nov. 1772; apprentice to a chemist at Stockport 1786; chemist in London 1793, partner with William Allen 1796–1803; chemist at Stratford 1805; made observations on the clouds 1802 and first used the terms cirrus, cumulus and stratus and nimbus or rain cloud; kept a meteorological register from 1806; F.R.S. 1821; corresponded with Goethe 1822 who sent him a poem entitled Howard’s Ehrengedächtniss; author of A few notes on a letter to the Archbishops and on a charge relative to Joseph Lancaster’s plan for education. By Eccletus 1806; The climate of London 2 vols. 1818–20, 2 ed. 3 vols. 1833; Essay on the modification of clouds 1830, 3 ed. 1865; Cowper’s English version of the Odyssey with a commentary. By Outis 1843; Barometrographia, twenty years’ variation of the barometer 1847 and 10 other books. d. at res. of his son R. Howard, Bruce grove, Tottenham 21 March 1864. Proc. Royal Soc. xiv, 10–12 (1865); J. Bell and T. Redwood’s Pharmacy (1880) 331.

HOWARD, Philip Henry (eld. son of Henry Howard of Corby castle near Carlisle 1757–1842). b. Edinburgh 22 April 1801; ed. at Oscott coll. and Stonyhurst; M.P. for Carlisle 1830–47 and 1848–52 being the second Roman Catholic returned to parliament; F.S.A. 8 Dec. 1842; sheriff of Cumberland 1860; wrote miscellaneous poems and other articles in Edinburgh Catholic Mag. and other periodicals. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 1 Jany. 1883. Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 441–2 (1888).

HOWARD, Sir Ralph, 1 Baronet (elder son of Hugh Howard, comr. of stamp office, d. 3 Nov. 1840 aged 80). b. 1801; M.P. co. Wicklow 1829–47 and 1848–52; contested Evesham 1847; colonel of Wicklow militia 1 Oct. 1834 to 11 Dec. 1871; created baronet 26 July 1838. d. 15 Aug. 1873.

HOWARTH, Rev. Henry (son of Wm. Howarth, of Manchester, bath-keeper). b. Manchester 12 Jany. 1801; ed. at Manchester sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., fellow 1823–33; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1826, B.D. 1833; Hulsean lecturer 1835–36; R. of Meppershall, Beds. 1833–45; R. of St. George’s, Hanover sq. London 1845 to death; chaplain in ord. to the Queen 14 May 1855 to death; author of The truth and obligation of revealed religion. Discourses 1836; Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ of God. Discourses 1837; The liturgy as it is. Sermons 1843 and 11 other books. d. Tunbridge Wells 25 Aug. 1876. I.L.N. xxiv, 400 (1854), portrait.

HOWDEN, John Hobart Caradoc 2 Baron (only child of 1st Baron Howden 1762–1839). b. Dublin 16 Oct. 1799; ensign Grenadier Guards 13 July 1815; A.D.C. to Duke of Wellington in Paris, to Viscount Beresford in Portugal, and to Sir Thomas Maitland in the Mediterranean; major on half pay 9 June 1825; L.G. 26 Dec. 1859; sold out 29 Oct. 1861; M.P. for Dundalk 1830–31; succeeded his father as 2 Baron July 1839; attaché at Berlin 1824, at Paris 1825; wounded in battle of Navarino; military commissioner with French army at siege of Antwerp 1832, and with Spanish Army in Portugal 1834; envoy extraord. and minister plenipo. to Brazil 25 Jany. 1847 to 1850; minister plenipo. to Spain 14 May 1850 to March 1858; K.C.B. 23 Feb. 1852, G.C.B. 5 March 1858; K.H. 1830; equerry to Duchess of Kent 1841 to 1861. d. Caradoc near Bayonne 9 Oct. 1873. Foreign office list July 1873 p. 117.