Henry Edward John Howard (14 December 1795 – 8 October 1868) was an English Anglican clergyman who was Dean of Lichfield .[ 1] [ 2]
Early life and education
Howard was born at Castle Howard , Yorkshire, in 1795, the fourth son and youngest child of statesman Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle , and his wife, Lady Margaret Caroline Leveson-Gower, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Stafford . His eldest brother, George , succeeded their father as the 6th Earl of Carlisle in 1825, his second eldest brother, Maj. Frederick Howard , was killed in action at the Battle of Waterloo , and his third brother, William Howard , was a Conservative MP. He had six sisters, including Elizabeth, Duchess of Rutland .[ 1] He was sent to Eton College in 1805, followed by Christ Church, Oxford , earning a B.A. (1818), M.A. (1822), B.D. (1834), and D.D. (1838).[ 3]
Career
In 1820, he was ordained deacon and priest, and in 1822 appointed succentor of York Cathedral , with the prebendal stall of Holme attached. He became Dean of Lichfield and rector of Tatenhill , Staffordshire (a preferment worth £1,524 a year with a residence), on 27 November 1833, and in the following year he also obtained the rectory of Donington, Shropshire , worth £1,000 per annum (equivalent to £121,000 in 2023). From 1822 to 1833, he held the livings of Slingsby and Sutton-on-the-Forest , Yorkshire. He was a finished scholar and an eloquent preacher. He took a prominent part in, and contributed largely to, the restoration of Lichfield Cathedral . The establishment of the Lichfield Diocesan Training School, afterwards united to that at Saltley , as well as of the Lichfield Theological College , owed much to his efforts.
Personal life
Howard married, on 13 July 1824, Henrietta Elizabeth, sixth daughter of Ichabod Wright of Mapperley Hall , Nottinghamshire, by whom he had five sons and five daughters:[ 4] [ 5]
Julia Marie Howard (25 May 1825 – 27 May 1914), married 1860 Rev. James Peter King Salter
George Howard (20 June 1826 – 7 April 1917), Librarian of the House of Commons
Capt. John Henry Howard (30 November 1827 – 31 July 1925) of the Royal Navy
Charlotte Henrietta Howard (3 June 1829 – 3 October 1896) married in 1853, Rev. Hon. Archibald George Campbell, son of 1st Earl Cawdor
Emily Georgiana Howard (8 July 1830 – 12 March 1922)
Vice-Admiral Edward Henry Howard (7 June 1832 – 18 January 1890)
Capt. Charles John Henry Howard (28 September 1834 – 24 July 1907) of the 71st Foot
Caroline Octavia Howard (20 March 1839 – 30 July 1922), who married Charles Philip Wilbraham, son of Randle Wilbraham of Rode Hall , Cheshire
Elizabeth Henrietta Howard (4 November 1842 – 4 March 1915), who married Rev. Nigel Madan
Rev. Henry Frederick Howard (9 November 1844 – 6 April 1938)
He died, after many years of physical infirmity, at Donington Rectory on 8 October 1868.
Works
Translations from Claudian , 1823.
Scripture History in Familiar Lectures. The Old Testament , 1840, Vol. II of the Englishman's Library .
Scripture History. The New Testament , 1840, Vol. XIV of the Englishman's Library .
The Rape of Proserpine. The Phœnix and the Nile , by Claudian, translated 1854.[ 6]
The Books of Genesis according to the Version of the LXX , translated, with notes, 1855.
The Books of Exodus and Leviticus according to the Versions of the LXX , translated with notes, 1857.
The Books of Numbers and Deuteronomy according to the LXX , translated, with notes, 1857.
References
^ a b Mosley, Charles , ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 686–688. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1 .
^ George Clement Boase (1898). "Howard, Henry Edward John ". In Dictionary of National Biography . 28. London. pp. 37-38.
^ Pharand, Michel; Hawman, Ellen L.; Millar, Mary S.; Otter, Sandra den; Wiebe, M. G. (1982). Benjamin Disraeli Letters: 1868, Vol. X . University of Toronto Press. p. 349. ISBN 978-1-4426-4859-3 . Retrieved 7 February 2020 .
^ Lodge, Edmund (1890). The Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire as at Present Existing . Hurst and Blackett, limited. p. 109. Retrieved 8 February 2020 .
^ Burke, Sir Bernard , ed. (1939). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (97th ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. p. 495. ISBN 0-00-082331-7 .
^ Claudianus, C., Howard, H. Edward John. (1854). The rape of Proserpine: a poem in three books . Incomplete. To which are added, the Phoenix: an idyll and the Nile: a fragment. [n.p.].
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