Background
Howard was the son of Stephen Howard of Kirtling in Cambridgeshire.
Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
Howard was the son of Stephen Howard of Kirtling in Cambridgeshire.
His family home was at The Moat, Upend. Their son Stephen Gerald Howard Queen's Counsel was Conservative Member of Parliament for Cambridgeshire from 1950-1961. Howard described his profession as a tenant farmer and is recorded as owning land in Kirtling, very near the border with West Suffolk.
He is described as one the area’s principal landowners.
Howard was President of East Cambridgeshire Liberal Association and was then selected as the candidate for the Sudbury Division of Suffolk for the 1918 general election. Although he was known to be a supporter of prime minister David Lloyd George he was elected as a Liberal without receiving the coalition coupon.
However, once elected, he was one of nine such MPs to accept the Coalition whip in the ensuing Parliament. Another historian says there were only eight such MPs but still includes Howard in the list.
He defeated Captain R G Proby, who was standing as a Coalition Unionist
Howard also stood in Sudbury at the 1922 general election this time as a Lloyd George National Liberal.
He was sometime Chairman of the Main Roads Committee and of the Roads and Bridges Committee. He also served on the Joint Committee. He was created an Alderman and became Chairman of the County Council in 1921.
Howard was awarded the Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1918.
He was also appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire and served as a Justice of the Peace.
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Howard was a member of Cambridgeshire County Council.