Edward Henry Howard

Edward Henry Howard (13 February 1829 – 16 September 1892) was an English Catholic priest and archbishop, who was made a cardinal in 1877.[1][2] He was a relative of the Dukes of Norfolk.

His Eminence Edward Henry Cardinal Howard
Cardinal-Bishop of Frascati
See	Frascati
Appointed	24 March 1884
Term ended	16 September 1892
Predecessor	Filippo Maria Guidi
Successor	Tommaso Maria Zigliara
Other posts	Archpriest of St. Peter's Basilica
Orders
Ordination	8 December 1854
Consecration	30 June 1872 by Carlo Sacconi
Created cardinal	12 March 1877 by Pope Pius IX
Rank	Cardinal-Bishop
Personal details
Born	13 February 1829 Hainton, Nottingham, England
Died	16 September 1892 (aged 63) Hatch Beauchamp, Brighton, Sussex, England
Buried	Fitzalan Chapel, Arundel Castle, Sussex, England
Nationality	British
Denomination	Roman Catholic Church
Parents	Edward Giles Howard and Frances Anne Heneage
Previous post	Titular Archbishop of Neocaesarea in Ponto (1872–1877) Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo (1877–1884)

Life

Howard was the son of Edward Gyles Howard, by his marriage to Frances Anne Heneage, and was educated at St Mary's College, Oscott. His father was the son of Edward Charles Howard, the youngest brother of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk.[3] His father’s sister Julia Barbara Howard was married to Henry Stafford-Jerningham, 9th Baron Stafford, from 1829 until she died in 1856.[4]

After a short stint of service as a British Army officer with the Life Guards, during which he commanded the detachment escorting the hearse at the Duke of Wellington's funeral in 1852,[5] Howard resigned his commission to study for the priesthood at the Academy of Ecclesiastical Nobles in Rome, and was ordained a priest in 1854. He served as a missionary in Goa, Portuguese India. After his return to Rome, he continued to work with Englishmen who wished to convert from Anglicanism to the Church of Rome. In June 1871, he was made titular Archbishop of Neocaesaria in partibus and assistant bishop to the Cardinal Bishop of Frascati.

Howard was promoted to Cardinal-Priest of Ss. Giovanni e Paolo on 12 March 1877 and in 1878 appointed Protector of the English College at Rome, an institution to which he later left his valuable library. For about a year, he was papal envoy to Goa, India, to negotiate between the British and the Portuguese authorities the settlement of the problems concerning the ecclesiastical government of the Province of Goa. He wanted to become a missionary in the East but the Pope Pius IX insisted that he stay in Rome. He served in pastoral ministry in Rome as confessor of the poor and the soldiers. In December 1881 he became Archpriest of Saint Peter's Basilica. On 24 March 1884 he became Cardinal-Bishop of the suburbicarian diocese of Frascati.

In failing health, he retired to Brighton shortly before his death, which occurred on 16 September 1892. He is buried at the Fitzalan Chapel in Arundel, West Sussex.

Honours

• Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Kalākaua I, 1881[6]

References

1. Miranda, Salvador. "Edward Henry Howard". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Retrieved 28 June 2020.
2. "Edward Henry Cardinal Howard". Catholic-Hierarchy. Retrieved 8 January 2010.
3. Burke's Peerage, vol. 2 (2003), page 2,911
4. Stafford, Baron (E 1640) at cracroftspeerage.co.uk, accessed 14 April 2020
5. Sir George Arthur "Concerning Queen Victoria and her Son" (London 1943), p. 69
6. The Royal Tourist—Kalakaua's Letters Home from Tokio to London. Editor: Richard A. Greer. Date: 10 March 1881

External links

• Dudley Baxter, England's Cardinals pages 82–85
• New Zealand Tablet, The New English Cardinal
• John Martin Robinson, The Duke of Norfolk, A Quincentennial History

Ordination history of Edward Henry Howard
History Priestly ordination Date 8 December 1854 Episcopal consecration Principal consecrator Carlo Sacconi Co-consecrators Salvatore Nobili Vitelleschi Frédéric-François-Xavier Ghislain de Mérode Date 30 June 1872 Cardinalate Date 12 March 1877
Episcopal succession Bishops consecrated by Edward Henry Howard as principal consecrator Pietro Pace 1877 George Rigg 1878 Christophore Cosandey 1880 Federico Pietro Foschi 1880 Casimiro Gennari 1881 Alfonso Maria Giordano 1881 Robert Aston Coffin 1882 Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro 1882 Giovanni Battista Mantovano 1883 Johannes Joseph Koppes 1883 Vincenzo Addessi 1884 Stanislao Maria de Luca 1884 Pasquale Maria Jaderosa 1884 Federico Pizza 1884