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.
HOWDEN, James Adam. b. 1803; entered Madras army 1819, M.G. 28 Nov. 1854; colonel 52 Madras N.I. 28 June 1855 to death. d. Devonshire place, Portland place, London 22 March 1869.
HOWE, Richard William Penn Curzon-Howe 1 Earl (only son of the hon. Penn Assheton Curzon 1757–97). b. Gopsall house, Leics. 11 Dec. 1796; capt. Leics. regt. of yeomanry 21 May 1818, lieut.-col. 1831–60; succeeded his grandfather as 2 viscount and baron Curzon 21 March 1820; took name of Howe 7 July 1821; cr. Earl Howe 15 July 1821; G.C.H. 1830; lord chamberlain to queen Adelaide 1830–31, when he was dismissed by earl Grey the prime minister, again lord chamberlain 1834–49; P.C. 31 Jany. 1831; succeeded his mother as 2 baron Howe 3 Dec. 1835; vice lieut. co. Leicester 27 Oct. 1863. d. Curzon house, South Audley st., London 12 May 1870. Portraits of eminent conservatives (1836) 1 Series, portrait 23.
HOWE, George Augustus Frederick Louis Curzon Howe, 2 Earl (1 son of the preceding). b. Brook st. London 16 Jany. 1821; styled viscount Curzon 1821–70; ed. at Eton; matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 30 May 1838; cornet Leics. regt. of yeomanry 1838, lieut.-col. 15 Nov. 1860, lieut.-col. commandant 15 March 1870 to death; M.P. South Leics. 1857–70; master of the Atherstone hounds some years; succeeded as 2 earl Howe 12 May 1870. d. Gopsall hall, Leics. 4 Feb. 1876, personalty sworn under £250,000, 13 May 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 167, 479 (1876); Baily’s Mag. xii, 217–8 (1867), portrait.
HOWE, Joseph (son of John Howe 1752–1835, King’s printer at Halifax, Nova Scotia). b. in a cottage on banks of North-west Arm, Halifax 13 Dec. 1804; a printer 1817–27; editor and proprietor of a paper called the Nova Scotian 1828; M.P. for co. of Halifax, Nov. 1836; member of the executive council 1840; speaker of house of assembly 1840; provincial sec. 4 years; sec. of state for lower provinces in Dominion of Canada 1870–3; governor of Nova Scotia, May 1873; author of Speech on the importance to Great Britain of her North American colonies 1851; Confederation considered in relation to the interests of the empire 1866; The organization of the empire 1866 and 4 other books. d. Halifax 1 June 1873. W. Annand’s Speeches and letters of Joseph Howe 2 vols. (1858).
HOWE, William. b. West Auckland, co. Durham 3 March 1814; a mechanic with R. Stephenson & Co., Newcastle; perfected Williams’ valve gear known as the link motion, in the form in which it has been universally applied to locomotives, Aug. 1842; invented the three-cylinder locomotive engine 1846; engineer at Stephenson’s Clay Cross collieries and iron works Nov. 1846 to death; designed the self-acting fence now universally used at top of colliery winding shafts; M.I.M.E. 1860. d. Clay Cross, Chesterfield 16 Jany. 1879. N. P. Burgh’s Link motion (1870) pp. i-xvi; D. K. Clark’s Railway machinery (1855) 26; Engineer, xlvii, 67 (1879).
HOWELL, Arthur (eld. son of James Howell 1811–79, contra-bassist). b. London 1836; contra-bassist and bass singer; stage manager Carl Rosa opera co.; went on an Australian tour with his wife 1879; (m. 1874 Rose Hersee, soprano opera and concert singer). d. 32 Lawford road, Kentish Town, London 16 April 1885.
HOWELL, Francis (brother of the preceding). b. London 1834; wrote 2 oratorios The Captivity 1860, The Land of Promise 1870 and many songs and ballads. d. 1882.
HOWELL, James, b. Plymouth 1811; student R. Acad. of music, June 1825 to Dec. 1830; learnt double-bass under signor Anfossi; professor of double-bass at R. Acad. of music 1830; M.R.A.M.; double-bass player at the Ancient and Philharmonic concerts and R. Italian opera; the successor of Domenico Dragonetti as the best double-bass player 1846. d. London 5 Aug. 1879. Cazalet’s R. Acad. of Music (1854) 296–7; Grove’s Dict. of Music, i, 754 (1879).