Background
John Saul Howson was born on the 5th of March, 1816 in Giggleswick, United Kingdom.
John Saul Howson was born on the 5th of March, 1816 in Giggleswick, United Kingdom.
John Saul Howson attended the Trinity College.
John Saul Howson became private tutor at Cambridge to the Marquess of Sligo and the Marquess of Lorne.
He died at Bournemouth on the December 15, 1885, and was buried in the cloister garth of Chester. Howson was the father of George Howson (1854–1943) who was Archdeacon of Warrington from 1916 to 1933, and then Archdeacon of Liverpool from 1933 to 1934. Another son James Howson (1856–1934) was Archdeacon of Craven from 1928 to 1934.
This post he held until 1865, and it was largely due to his influence that a similar college for girls was established at Liverpool. On 2 June 1865, Howson was appointed as Honorary Chaplain of the 1st Lancashire Rifle Volunteer Corps. In 1866 he left Liverpool for the vicarage of Wisbech, and in 1867 he was appointed dean of Chester Cathedral, where he gave himself vigorously to the work of restoring the crumbling fabric, collecting nearly £100,000 in five years for this purpose His restoration created a great debate and led in part to formation of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings.
John Saul Howson's sympathies were with the evangelical party, and he stoutly opposed the "Eastward position," but he was by no means narrow. He did much to reintroduce the ministry of women as deaconesses. The building of the King's School for boys, and the Queen's School for girls (both in Chester), was due in a great measure to the active interest which he took in educational matters.
Howson's chief literary production was The Life and Epistles of St Paul (1852) in which he collaborated with Conybeare.