Background
Howard was born at Stone House near Kidderminster, second son of Henry Howard and Alice Gertrude Thomson. He entered his father"s steelworks firm, Lloyd and Lloyd in Worcester, becoming a director in 1896.
Howard was born at Stone House near Kidderminster, second son of Henry Howard and Alice Gertrude Thomson. He entered his father"s steelworks firm, Lloyd and Lloyd in Worcester, becoming a director in 1896.
He studied at Stoke Poges, Eton, and Mason College (the forerunner of the University of Birmingham).
His ideas on territoriality were influential in the work of Max Nicholson. Then in 1903 a director of the enlarged firm, Stewarts and Lloyds. He showed from his earliest childhood an intense love of natural history.
lieutenant was not until 1914 that his first work, British Warblers, was fully published, having been issued in parts since 1907.
Continually working on the theory of territory, he published Territory in Bird Life, illustrated by George Edward Lodge and Henrik Grönvold, in 1920 (a reissue in 1948 had an introduction by Julian Huxley and James Fisher), followed by An Introduction to the Study of Bird Behaviour, Nature of a Bird"s World and lastly A Waterhen"s World, in 1940. His books were published under the name "Eliot Howard".
Although his home was always in Worcestershire, much of his time was spent on the wild coast of Donegal and in the north west of Ireland, shooting, fishing and studying natural history. He died at his home, Clareland, Stourport-on-Severn.
His father, Henry was a manufacturing chemist and was son of John Eliot Howard.
John"s father was Luke Howard. The 1901 Census shows Henry Eiot as a, "Iron tube manufacterer".
He was a Justice of the Peace and for forty-five years a member of the British Ornithologists" Union.