Henry Howard

Who was Henry Howard?

The Hon. Henry Edward John Howard was Dean of Lichfield.

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 B.A. 1818, M.A. 1822, B.D. 1834, and D.D. 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, on 27 Nov. 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.