Robert Wilmot Howard (16 September 1887 – 23 November 1960) was a British

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priest and academic, who was Canon Diocesan of

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(1943-1945) alongside being Principal of

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(1929-1945) and later

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(later known as St Peter's College) from 1945 to 1955.

Biography

Howard was the son of the Revd Charles Howard, first Headmaster of Monkton Combe Junior School in

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, near

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. He was educated at

Monkton Combe School Monkton Combe School is a public school ( fee-charging boarding and day school), in the village of Monkton Combe near Bath in Somerset, England. History Monkton Combe School was founded in 1868 by the Revd. Francis Pocock, a former curate ...

's Junior School before going on to

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and

Ridley Hall, Cambridge Ridley Hall is a theological college located on the corner of Sidgwick Avenue and Ridley Hall Road in Cambridge (United Kingdom), which trains men and women intending to take Holy Orders as deacon or priest of the Church of England, and members ...

. After ordination in 1912, he was from 1912 to 1915 Tutor to St Aidan's Theological College and became there a chaplain and then Vice-Principal. From 1916 to 1919 he was a chaplain in the British Expeditionary Force. He was from 1920 to 1923 Home Education Secretary of the

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, from 1924 to 1928 Assistant Master at Eton College, from 1928 to 1945 Headmaster of

, 1928-1945, and from 1945 to 1955 Master or St Peter's Hall, Oxford. When Howard worked at Liverpool College, he was also Canon Diocesan of

from 1943 to 1945, becoming Canon Emeritus from 1945. From 1945 to 1955 he served as Rector of St Peter-le-Bailey, and Master of St Peter's Hall; in the latter office he was both preceded and succeeded by

Julian Thornton-Duesbery Julian Percy Thornton-Duesbery (7 September 1902 – 1 April 1985) was a British Church of England priest and academic. He was Master of St Peter's Hall, Oxford (later known as St Peter's College) from 1940 to 1944, and from 1955 to 1968. He als ...

.Revd Robert Wilmot Howard, St Peter's College, U. of Oxford, spc.ox.ac.uk
/ref> Howard married and was the father of five children. He collected materials for a biography of Reverend Christopher Sargent but no drafts of a manuscript are available; the materials are at Cadbury Research Library, University of Birmingham. Liverpool University holds papers of Robert W. Howard, relating to St Aidan's College from 1919 to 1928.

Selected publications

*as author and editor: * * *

References

External links

Portrait of Canon Robert Wilmot Howard by Edward Irvine Halliday. artuk.org
{{DEFAULTSORT:Howard, Robert Wilmot 1887 births 1960 deaths 20th-century English Anglican priests People educated at Monkton Combe School People educated at Weymouth College (public school) Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge Alumni of Ridley Hall, Cambridge Masters of St Peter's College, Oxford