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GB-2014-WSA-09638 · Person · 1835-?

HOWARD-GIBBON, HENRY FREDERICK HOWARD, son of Edward Howard Howard-Gibbon, Norroy King of Arms, and Amelia, second dau. of Stephen Cooper Dendy; b. 9 Oct 1835; adm. 3 Jun 1847; Min. Can. 1850.

GB-2014-WSA-09639 · Person · 1877-1954

Howarth, Osbert John Radclyffe, son of Osbert Henry Howarth, of Chelsea, by Mary, daughter of John Macfarlane, of Manchester; b. Nov. 18, 1877; adm. Sept. 25, 1888 (H); exhibitioner 1890; elected to an exhibition at Ch. Ch. Oxon, July 1896, matric. Oct. 1896; Univ. Scholar in Geography 1901; B.A. 1900; M.A. 1905; geographical asst. to the editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica 1904-11; asst. secretary, British Assoc. for the Advancement of Science 1909-20, secretary since 1920; employed in the Geographical section of the Intel­ligence Dept. of the Naval Staff 1915-9; O.B.E. Jan. 1, 1920; Curator of the Darwin Memorial Downe House, Downe, Kent, 1946; Hon. Ph. D. Leeds Univ.; President of the Geographical Association 1953; author of Commercial Geography of the World (1912), and other works; m. April 28, 1909, Eleanor Katherine, daughter of Stephen Paget, F.R.C.S., of St. Marylebone; d. June 22, 1954.

GB-2014-WSA-20663 · Person · 1952-2002

Howe Browne, Stephen James, brother of Charles Andrew Howe Browne (qv); b. 21 Dec. 1952; adm. Sept. 1966 (R); left July 1970; Manchester Coll. Oxf. 1971-4; a chartered surveyor; d. 1 Nov. 2002.

Howe, ---, fl. 1716
GB-2014-WSA-09640 · Person · fl. 1716

HOWE, ---; b.; in under school list 1716.

GB-2014-WSA-09641 · Person · 1910-2013

Howe, Bernard William, brother of John Richard Howe (qv); b. 31 Oct. 1910; adm. May 1924 (G); left July 1928; FRICS; a farmer and breeder of pedigree cattle; RE (Forestry) 1940-5 (Capt.); Pres. The Shorthorn Society of the United Kingdom 1984-5; m. 1942 Eileen Mary, d. of J. C. Robinson of Newick, Sussex; d. 2 Apr. 2013.

GB-2014-WSA-09642 · Person · ca. 1724-1758

HOWE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS, 3RD VISCOUNT HOWE (I), second son of Emanuel Howe, 2nd Viscount Howe (I) MP, and Mary Sophia Charlotte, Lady of Bedchamber to Augusta, Princess of Wales, dau. of Charlotte, Countess of Darlington; b.; aged (8) Nov 1732; left 1735 (but said to have been at Eton Coll. c. 1734); succeeded father as 3rd Viscount Howe (I) 29 Mar 1735; Ensign, 1st Foot Guards 9 Mar 1745; Lieut. and Capt., 9 May 1746; served in Flanders as ADC to Duke of Cumberland 1747; Capt. and Lieut. -Col., 1 May 1749; Col. commandant 60th Foot (Royal American Regt. ) 25 Feb 1757 – Sep 1757, 55th Foot from 28 Sep 1757; Brig. -Gen. in North America 29 Dec 1757; second in command of Abercromby’s ill-fated expedition 1758; MP Nottingham from 1747; killed in skirmish with French at Trout Brook, near Ticonderoga, unm. 6 Jul 1758. Monument in North-West Tower, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

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.