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Howe, George, ca. 1720-?
GB-2014-WSA-09643 · Person · ca. 1720-?

HOWE, GEORGE; b.; adm. (aged 7) Mar 1727/8; left 1733.

GB-2014-WSA-09644 · Person · 1715-1781

HOWE, HENRY FREDERICK, 3RD BARON CHEDWORTH, brother of John Thynne Howe, 2nd Baron Chedworth (qv); b. 17 Feb 1715 (IGI); adm. (aged 11) Jul 1726; in school list 1729; Pembroke Coll. Oxford, matr. 25 Nov 1731; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 1 Aug 1732, called to bar 25 May 1739; succeeded brother as 3rd Baron Chedworth 9 May 1762; d. unm. 1781 (will proved PCC 11 Dec 1781).

GB-2014-WSA-09645 · Person · 1902-1994

Howe, John Richard, son of Herbert Arthur Howe, solicitor, of Croydon, and Fanny, d. of William Oram of Redhill, Surrey; b. 30 June 1902; adm. Jan. 1916 (G); left July 1919; a civil engineer; LNER 1923-62; m. 1963 Marion Dixon of Wylam; d. 2 Dec. 1994.

Howe, John Thynne, 1714-1762
GB-2014-WSA-09646 · Person · 1714-1762

HOWE, JOHN THYNNE, 2ND BARON CHEDWORTH, son of John Howe, 1st Baron Chedworth, Stowell, Gloucs., and Dorothy, dau. of Henry Frederick Thynne; b. 18 Feb 1714 (IGI); adm. (aged 12) Jul 1726; in school list 1729; Pembroke Coll. Oxford, matr. 25 Nov 1731; Grand Tour (Italy) 1733-4; succeeded father as 2nd Baron Chedworth 3 Apr 1742; Lord Lieut., Gloucestershire, from 15 Nov 1758; m. 1751 Martha, dau. of Col. --- Parker-a-Morley- Long [check]; d. 9 May 1762.

Howe, Richard, 1615-1674
GB-2014-WSA-09647 · Person · 1615-1674

HOWE, RICHARD, son of Rev. Thomas Howe, Rector of Grendon Underwood, Bucks.; bapt. Grendon Underwood 17 Jul 1615 (IGI); adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1631, matr. 28 Nov 1634, aged 19, Westminster Student to 29 Jun 1648, when expelled by Parliamentary Visitors for his “high contempt of the authoritie of Parliament”, reinstated 1660; BA 1635; MA 1638; BD 1660; ordained; Rector of Thruxton, Hampshire 10 Mar 1645/6; d. 9 May 1674. Buried Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

Howe, Richard, 1726-1799
GB-2014-WSA-09648 · Person · 1726-1799

HOWE, RICHARD, 1ST EARL HOWE, brother of George Augustus Howe, 3rd Viscount Howe (I) (qv); b. 8 Mar 1725/6; adm. Nov 1732; left 1733; went to Eton Coll.; entered Royal Navy on board HMS Pearl 16 Jul 1739; sailed in HMS Severn as far as Cape Horn with Anson 1740; present at attack on La Guaira 18 Feb 1742/3; Lieut., 8 Aug 1745; severely wounded in action with French frigates off west coast of Scotland 1 May 1746; Post Capt., 10 Apr 1746; his capture of the French ship Alcide off the mouth of the St. Lawrence river on 8 Jun 1755 was the beginning of the Seven Years’ War with France; commanded attack on Cherbourg 5 May 1759; distinguished himself at battle of Quiberon Bay 20 Nov 1759; Rear Adm., 18 Nov 1770; Vice-Adm., 7 Dec 1775; Commander-in-Chief, North American Station Feb 1776; co-operated with his brother Sir William Howe against the American colonists, but resigned command 1778 and remained out of employment until fall of North ministry in early 1782; Commander-in-Chief, Channel Fleet 2 Apr 1782; Adm., 8 Apr 1782; relieved Gibraltar against French and Spanish fleets Oct 1784 (check); Vice-Admiral of England May 1792 – Mar 1796; won brilliant victory of 1 Jun 1794 in command Channel Fleet, capturing seven French ships; Admiral of the Fleet and General of the Marines 12 Mar 1796; presided over court martial of Vice-Adm. Cornwallis Apr 1796; pacified mutineers at Portsmouth May 1797; MP Dartmouth 23 May 1757 – 20 Apr 1782; succeeded brother as 4th Viscount Howe (I) 6 Jul 1758; a Lord of the Admiralty Apr 1763 – Aug 1765; Privy Councillor 26 Jul 1765; Treasurer of the Navy 9 Aug 1765 – Mar 1770; created Viscount Howe (GB) 2 [check] Apr 1782; First Lord of Admiralty Jan – Apr 1783, Dec 1783 – Jul 1788; attacked in parliament and in print for his reductions and reforms; created Earl Howe 19 Aug 1788; received freedom of City of London 6 May 1796; KG 2 Jun 1797; the signalling code was perfected and refined by him; DL Nottinghamshire 1762, Derbyshire 1763; m. 10 Mar 1758 Mary, dau. of Chiverton Hartop, Welby, Leics.; d. 5 Aug 1799. Monument by Flaxman in St. Paul’s cathedral. DNB.

GB-2014-WSA-09649 · Person · 1896-1977

Howe, Sir Ronald Martin, son of Frank Gull Howe, of Suffolk, by Clara Hettie, daughter of Alexander Mackenzie, of Stornoway, Isle of Lewis; b. Sept. 5, 1896; adm. Sept. 24, 1908 (H); non-resident K.S. 1911; elected head to Ch. Ch. Oxon. July 1915, matric. Trinity 1919; called to the bar at the Inner Temple May 14, 1924; Legal Officer, Office of Director of Public Prosecutions 1924-31; Chief Constable, C. I. D., Scotland Yard, 1932; Deputy Asst. Commissioner Metropolitan Police 1933; Asst. Commissioner 1945; Deputy Commissioner 1953-7; British Representative, International Criminal Police Commission; later chairman or director of many companies; 2nd Lieut. Royal Sussex Regt. July 30, 1915; served in France with 7th Batt. from June 1916 to Aug. 4, when he was wounded; returned to France in Jan. 1917 and remained there till demob. in Feb. 1919; Lieut. July 1, 1917, acting Capt. Dec. 7, 1917, temp. Capt. Sept. 8, 1918; M.C. Jan. 11, 1919; C. V. O. 1950; knighted 1955; d. 30 Aug. 1977.

Howe, Thomas, 1718-1747
GB-2014-WSA-09650 · Person · 1718-1747

HOWE, THOMAS, son of Thomas Howe, Abbots Langley, Herts., and Henrietta, dau. of John Gape, St. Albans, Herts.; bapt. Abbots Langley 25 Nov 1718 (IGI); adm. (aged 10) Jul 1729; left 1735; Merton Coll. Oxford, matr. 15 Jul 1738; MA 11 Jul 1741. [note Thomas Howe, Abbots Langley, Herts., will proved PCC 22 Jul 1747]

Howe, William, fl. 1740
GB-2014-WSA-20779 · Person · fl. 1740

Howe, William; “Mr Willm How” (sic) is shown on an undated manuscript plan postdating 1740 as the lessee of part of Vaughan’s House (the house previously occupied by Mrs Beresford) ; “We hear that Mr.Howe, who keeps the French Boarding-House, in College-Street, near Westminster School, for young Gentlemen educated there, has taken the House in Little-Dean’s Yard, that the Rev.Dr.Nicoll is quitting” (London Evening Post, 5 – 7 Jun 1750 ; cf. advert in Westminster Journal 30 Jan 1747/8, for boarding house “at the Corner House of Barton Street, in College Street, fronting the Dormitory”, where boarders were taught “French, Writing and Accompts in general, Mensuration, Geography, and several Branches of the Mathematics” ; first of five recorded boarders adm. Jun 1749, last recorded boarder adm. Apr 1751, although it is possible that Howe took in further boarders after the available boarding data ceases. Note also that William Howe, gent., College Street, was a voter in Westminster constituency 1749. [William Howe, St.Margaret, Westminster, will proved PCC 28 Sep 1782]

GB-2014-WSA-09651 · Person · 1908-1994

Howell, Albert Ernest, son of Albert Ernest Howell, draper, of Penarth, Glam., and Elizabeth, d. of Thomas Merrett, builder, of Box, Wilts; b. 25 Feb. 1908; adm. Jan. 1921 (R), KS Sept. 1922; left July 1926; Trin. Coll. Camb., matric. 1926, BA 1929, MA 1933; a teacher of languages and translator from Italian; Intell. Corps in WW2 (Lieut.-Col.), despatches (Med.) May 1946; US Medal of Freedom Mar. 1947; Dir. British Inst. Turin 1952-5; MBE 1956; m. 28 Dec. 1946 Lilian Irene Myfanwy Thomas, solicitor, d. of Arthur Augustus Thomas MBE, barrister-at-law, of Copthorne, Sussex; d. June 1994.