Background
Howard, youngest child of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, and brother of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle, was born at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, on 14 December 1795, and entered at Eton College in 1805.
Howard, youngest child of Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle, and brother of George Howard, 6th Earl of Carlisle, was born at Castle Howard, Yorkshire, on 14 December 1795, and entered at Eton College in 1805.
He matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, on 23 May 1814, graduated Bachelor of Arts 1818, Master of Arts
The Honorary 1822, Bachelor of Divinity 1834, and Doctor of Divinity 1838. 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.
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 Theological College, owed much to his efforts.
He died, after many years of physical infirmity, at Donington Rectory on 8 October 1868.