Background
The only son of Peter Howard of Clifton Cottage, Portland Place, Leamington, he was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
The only son of Peter Howard of Clifton Cottage, Portland Place, Leamington, he was educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
Trinity Hall.
He entered Lincoln"s Inn in 1847 and was called to the bar in 1856. A pioneer of the Civil Service Cooperative Stores, which became the Civil Service Supply Association Limited, of which he was Chairman, he became Maltravers Herald Extraordinary in 1887. An early collector of bookplates, he purchased in 1859 the collection of Mission Maria Jenkins, and published examples of the bookplates of baronets in 1895.
Howard married in 1862 Ellen Clare West, the daughter of Joshua and Ann West.
His body rests in Twickenham Cemetery.