Edward Henry Howard (13 February 1829 – 16 September 1892) was an English

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priest and archbishop, who was made a

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in 1877. He was a relative of the

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Life

Howard was the son of Edward Gyles Howard, by his marriage to Frances Anne Heneage, and was educated at

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. His father was the son of

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, the youngest brother of

Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk Bernard Edward Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk, (21 November 1765 – 16 March 1842) was a British peer. Early life Howard was the son of Henry Howard (1713–1787) by his wife Juliana Molyneux, daughter of Sir William Molyneux, 6th Baronet (died ...

. His father's sister Julia Barbara Howard was married to

Henry Stafford-Jerningham, 9th Baron Stafford Henry Valentine Stafford-Jerningham, 9th Baron Stafford DL (2 January 1802 – 30 November 1884), known as Henry Jerningham until 1824 and styled The Honourable Henry Stafford-Jerningham between 1824 and 1851, was a British peer and politician ...

, from 1829 until she died in 1856. After a short stint of service as a

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officer with the Life Guards, during which he commanded the detachment escorting the hearse at the Duke of Wellington's funeral in 1852, Howard resigned his commission to study for the priesthood at the Academy of Noble Ecclesiastics in Rome, and was ordained a priest in 1854. He served as a missionary in

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. 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

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, an institution to which he later left his valuable library. For about a year, he was papal envoy to

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, 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

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. On 24 March 1884 he became Cardinal-Bishop of the

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

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Honours

* Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Kalākaua I, ''1881''The Royal Tourist—Kalakaua's Letters Home from Tokio to London. Editor: Richard A. Greer. Date: 10 March 1881

References

External links

Dudley Baxter, ''England's Cardinals''
pages 82–85
New Zealand Tablet, ''The New English Cardinal''
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, ''The Duke of Norfolk, A Quincentennial History'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Howard, Edward 1829 births 1892 deaths 20th-century British cardinals Cardinals created by Pope Pius IX Cardinal-bishops of Frascati

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British Life Guards officers Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Order of Kalākaua English College, Rome alumni