Career
Born about 1699, He was originally a clerk in the post office. He took orders, was Master of Arts probably of some Scottish university, and Doctor of Divinity by 1745. In 1742 he was curate of the parishes of Street John, Southwark, and Street Botolph, Aldersgate, and chaplain to Frederick, Prince of Wales.
Three years later he had become vicar of either Bishop"s Tawton or South Tawton, Devon, and lecturer of Street Magnus, London Bridge, and of Street James, Garlick Hythe.
On 18 July 1749 he was presented by the crown to the rectory of Street George the Martyr, Southwark, which he held with the lectureships of Street Magnus and of Street Margaret, Fish Street. He subsequently was appointed chaplain to Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, the Princess Dowager of Wales.
He died on 21 December 1767, aged 68, and was buried underneath the communion-table in Saint George"s Church. Howard was a popular preacher, but money troubles frequently led to his imprisonment in the King"s Bench Prison, where he was dubbed "poet laureate", and he sometimes obtained money as subscriptions to books which he pretended to be writing.
