People of Note
Reverend William Howard
Reverend Hon. William Howard was born on 23 April 1815 at St Georges Parish, Welbeck St , Middlesex. He was the son of Rt. Hon. Kenneth Alexander MacKenzie Howard, 1st Earl of Effingham and Lady Charlotte Primrose.
He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford where he took his Bachelors degree in 1837 and M.A. in 1840. He was ordained Deacon in 1838 by Dr. Charles Spencer, Bishop of Winchester, and admitted into priest's orders in the following year.
He married Barbara Frances Wilhelmina Chester, of Levens Hull, Westmorland; daughter of Lt.Gen. John Chester and Sophia Elizabeth Stuart, on 12th February 1862.
Reverend Hon. William Howard held the office of Rector of Whiston from 1841 until his death in 1881. Living with him at the Rectory Whiston in 1881:
- Barbara F.W. wife age 50 born Levens Hull, Westmorland
- Jane Anne CRAWLEY, unmarried, age 32 from Huntingdon, Ladys Maid
- Elizabeth A. GODLEY, a widow, age 39 from Sheffield, Parlour Maid
- Caroline PRATT, unmarried, age 25 from East Retford, Cook
- Ann WOODCOCK , unmarried, age 24 from Masbro, Housemaid
- John WINKER age 13 from Muskham, Notts, Groom Boy
Rev. Howard held the office of Canon of York Cathedral and was Rural Dean of Rotherham and had been more than once, returned to the Convocation of the Province of York, as proctor for the chapter, and also for the Archdeanery of York.
He was a magistrate for the West Riding of Yorkshire.
He died on 12 May 1881 following a stroke, at age 66, without issue.
Barbara Frances Wilhelmina wife of Reverend Hon. William Howard died April 26 1909
Notes re Charlotte Primrose: Charlotte Primrose was born at Holland House in 1776, eldest daughter of Neil, 3rd Earl of Rosebery. She died in 1864. She married Thomas Holmes, a scripture reader over fifty years her junior, at Preston on 28 April 1858
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