Background
HOWARD, Philip John Canning was born on March 14, 1853. Son of Philip Henry Howard, late Member of Parliament, of Corby, and Eliza Minto, daughter of late Major John Canning, Honourable East India Company’s Sendee, sometime Political Resident at Court of Ava, and niece and heiress of late Francis Canning ol Foxcote, Company Warwick.