Richard Howard (priest)

Richard Thomas Howard (1884^[1] – 1 November 1981^[2]) was an Anglican priest and author.^[3]

Howard was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1908^[4] and began his ministry as chaplain of his former Cambridge college. In 1912 he went to St. John's College, Agra for the Church Missionary Society (CMS). From 1913 to 1918 he was Vice-Principal of St Paul’s Divinity School, Allahabad and from then until 1929 was the Principal of St Aidan’s College, Birkenhead. After four years as Vicar of Luton he became Provost of Coventry Cathedral,^[5] a position he held for 25 years. From 1941 to 1946 he was also Archdeacon of Coventry.

References

↑ Who was Who 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
↑ "The Very Rev R. T. Howard", The Times, 4 November 1981, p12
↑ Among other books he wrote “Ruined and Rebuilt: the story of Coventry Cathedral”, 1962, and “Behold Your God”, 1969, British Library website.
↑ ”The Clergy List” London, Kelly’s, 1913
↑ The Times, 6 January 1933, p15.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Cyril Evelyn Morton	Provost of Coventry Cathedral 1933–1958	Succeeded by Harold Claude Noel Wiliams
Preceded by Richard Brook	Archdeacon of Coventry 1941–1946	Succeeded by Leonard Stanford

Provosts and Deans of Coventry

Provosts	Cyril Morton Richard Howard Harold Williams Colin Semper John Petty

Deans	John Petty Stuart Beake John Irvine Tim Pullen John Witcombe

Archdeacons of Coventry

High Medieval	Richard Peche Edmund Nicholas Richard Brito (I) Richard de Leghes Robert de Bosco Richard of Gloucester Alexander of Hales Adam de Hoo Lawrence of St Martin William of Kilkenny John Kirkby Richard Brito (II) Robert Stafford Peter de Insula

Late Medieval	Gregory Giudice de Alatri Richard Riccardi de Urbe John Cardinal Gaetani de Urbe Humphrey de Hastanges Hugh de Marisco William de Sallowe William Cross Richard Boule William de Driffield John de Pipe Richard de Birmingham William Lombe Robert de Stretton Robert de Oxton John Heyworth Robert Esple Roger Wall Thomas Mills

Early modern	George Strangeways Ralph Colyngwood John Blythe Henry Comberford Thomas Lever William James William Hinton Samuel Brooke Ralph Brownrigg Francis Walsall John Riland George Downing Lancelot Addison Richard Davies William Wilson Thomas Smallbrook Norman Fotheringham

Late modern	William Vyse Charles Buckeridge William Spooner John Sandford Charles Holbech George Arbuthnot Claude Blagden Joseph Hunkin Richard Brook Richard Howard Leonard Stanford Eric Buchan Peter Bridges Alan Morgan Ian Russell Mark Bryant Ian Watson John Green (Acting; became Archdeacon Pastor)

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