Henry Howard (priest)

The Hon. Henry Edward John Howard (14 December 1795 – 8 October 1868) 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 (a preferment worth £1,524 a year with a residence), 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.

He died, after many years of physical infirmity, at Donington Rectory on 8 October 1868. He married, 13 July 1824, Henrietta Elizabeth, sixth daughter of Ichabod Wright of Mapperley Hall, Nottinghamshire, by whom he had five sons and five daughters.

Works

Translations from Claudian, 1823.
‘Scripture History in Familiar Lectures. The Old Testament,’ 1840, being vol. ii. of the ‘Englishman's Library.’
‘Scripture History. The New Testament,’ 1840, being vol. xiv. of the Englishman's Library.
‘The Rape of Proserpine. The Phœnix and the Nile,’ by C. Claudianus, translated 1854.
‘The Books of Genesis according to the Version of the LXX,’ translated, with notes, 1855.
‘The Books of Exodus and Leviticus according to the Versions of the LXX,’ translated with notes, 1857.
‘The Books of Numbers and Deuteronomy according to the LXX,’ translated, with notes, 1857.

References

"Howard, Henry Edward John". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

Deans of Lichfield

Medieval	John de Derby Stephen Seagrave Roger de Convenis John Garssia Richard FitzRalph John of Thoresby Simon de Brisele John Bokyngham William de Manton Laurence de Ibstock Anthony Rous Francis de Teobaldeschi William Pakington Thomas de Stretton Robert Wolveden John Verney Thomas Heywood

Early modern	John Yotton Ralph Colyngwood James Denton Richard Sampson Henry Williams John Ramridge Laurence Nowell George Boleyn James Montague William Tooker Walter Curle Augustine Lindsell John Warner Samuel Fell Griffin Higgs William Paul Thomas Wood Matthew Smallwood Lancelot Addison William Binckes Jonathan Kimberley William Walmesley Nicholas Penny John Addenbrooke Baptist Proby

Late modern	John Woodhouse Henry Howard William Champneys Edward Bickersteth Herbert Luckock Henry Savage Frederic Iremonger William MacPherson George Holderness John Lang Tom Wright Michael Yorke Adrian Dorber Pete Wilcox (Acting)