
Joseph Jackson Howard,
LL.D.
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,
FSA (12 April 1827 ā 18 April 1902) was an English genealogist who was
Maltravers Herald of Arms Extraordinary from 1887 to 1902.
Life
The only son of Peter Howard of Clifton Cottage, Portland Place,
Leamington, he was educated at
Trinity Hall, Cambridge
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.
He entered
Lincoln's Inn
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in 1847 and was called to the bar in 1856. A pioneer of the Civil Service Cooperative Stores, which became the
Civil Service Supply Association
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History
In 1864, a group of clerks in the ...
, of which he was Chairman, he became Maltravers Herald Extraordinary in 1887. Having been elected Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries in 1854, he originated and was editor of ''Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica'' from 1866, was a founder of the
Harleian Society
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, and joint-founder and editor of ''
The Visitation of England and Wales'', 1893, and ''The Visitation of Ireland'', 1897. An early collector of
bookplates
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, he purchased in 1859 the collection of Miss Maria Jenkins, and published examples of the bookplates of
baronet
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s in 1895.
Howard married in 1862 Ellen Clare West, the daughter of Joshua and Ann West. His body rests in
Twickenham
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Cemetery.
References
*Obituary in ''Miscellanea Genealogica & Heraldica'', June 1902
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Brian North Lee
Brian North Lee FSA, (27 December 1936 in Syston, Leicestershire ā 24 February 2007 in London) was a former teacher, Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
The Society of Antiquaries of London (SAL) is a learned society of historians ...
, ''Some Bookplates of Heralds'', 2003
The Bookplate Society
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1827 births
1902 deaths
English genealogists
English antiquarians
English barristers
Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
19th-century English lawyers
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London