Howard
Howard names 10 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below. 1 of them is described by more than one encyclopedia.
Howard Earl of Surrey
Described by 2 of the 6 encyclopedias.
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
Earl of Surrey, and third Duke of Norfolk, an eminent statesman and naval and military commander, distinguished at the battle of Flodden, 1488- 1554. EDWARD, a younger brother of the preceding, and admiral of England, killed in action with the French in 1512. HENRY, Earl of Surrey, eldest son of Thomas, the first polite writer of love verses in the English tongue, beheaded on a charge of high treason, 1516-1546. HENRY, 2d son of the poet, and Earl of Northampton, a man of letters, implicated in the murder of Overbury, 1539- 1614. CHARLES, known as Lord Effingham and Earl of Nottingham, and grandson of the Duke of Norfolk, commander of the channel fleet on the invasion of England by the Spanish Armada, 1536- 1624. THOMAS, Earl of Arundel, Arundel, and earl marshal in the reign of Charles I., diplomatist and antiquary, died 1646. HENRY, his 2d son, and 6th Duke of Norfolk, by whom the Arundelian marbles, collected by his father, were presented to the University of Oxford, about 1668. CHARLES, 11th Duke of Norfolk, and formerly Earl of Surrey, known as a statesman in opposition to Lord North and Pitt, 1746-1815.
Aiton's Encyclopedia (1910)
Henry, Earl of Surrey (1517-1547). He was the grandson of the Earl of Surrey who won the victory at Flodden Field. He enjoyed the favor of Henry VIII for some years but after a time, being suspected of treason, he was imprisoned in the Tower, tried, condemned, and beheaded. Surrey was a friend of Sir Thomas Wyatt, and the two made a study of Italian poetry and borrowed therefrom the sonnet, which they adapted to English verse. Surrey was the first writer of English to make use of blank verse, translating two books of Virgil's Aeneid into this form of poetry. In 1557 the poems of Wyatt and Surrey were published in Tottel's Miscellany.
Howard JOHN, an English philanthropist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
JOHN, an English philanthropist; born in 1726. His father, a wealthy London tradesman, died when his son was about 19 years of age, and left him an independent fortune. In 1756 Howard undertook a voyage to Lisbon to view the effects of the recent earthquake. The vessel in which he embarked being captured , he was consigned to a French prison. The hardships he suffered and witnessed first roused his attention to the wrongs of prisoners. In 1773 he resolved to devote his time to the investigation of existing abuses in the management of prisons. He visited most of the English county jails and houses of correction, and in March, 1774, he laid the result of his inquiries before the House of Commons. În 1775 and 1776 he visited many Irish, Scotch and continental prisons , and published the result of his investigations . In 1789 he published an " Account of the Principal Lazarettos in Europe." He died of fever in Cherson in South Russia, in 1790.
Howard OLIVER OTIS, an American military officer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
OLIVER OTIS, an American military officer; born in Leeds, Me., Nov. 8, 1830; was graduated at Bowdoin College in 1850, and at the United States Military Academy in 1854; served in the Seminole War; was instructor in mathematics at West Point, 1857-1861; entered the Civil War as colonel of the 3d Maine Regiment; commanded a brigade at Bull Run , July 21, 1861; became major-general of volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862; commander of the Department of Tennessee in 1864; commissioner of Freedman's Bureau, 1865-1874; peace commissioner to the Indians of Arizona and New Mexico, 1872; brigadier-general in 1864; major-general , U. S. A., 1886; and was retired Nov. 8, 1894. He lectured and wrote: " Nez Perces Joseph"; "Life of Zachary Taylor"; "Isabella of Castile"; "Fighting for Humanity"; etc. He was personal military adviser of President McKinley in the American- Spanish War (1898). He died in 1909. institution in Birmingham, Ala.; founded
Howard LELAND OSSIAN, American entomologist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
LELAND OSSIAN, American entomologist; born in Rockford, Ill., in 1857. He graduated from Cornell University in 1877 , graduate courses at Georgetown University. He was appointed assistant entomologist in the Bureau of Entomology in 1878 and was appointed chief of that bureau in 1894. He was honorary curator of the Department of Insects from 1895 and was consulting curator of in the United States National Museum the United States Health Service from 1904. He was permanent secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he was a member of many foreign and American scientific societies. His published writings include " The Insect Book" (1902); "Mosquitoes of North America" (1912); together with many pamphlets and monographs.
Howard SIR HENRY, a British diplomat
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
SIR HENRY, a British diplomat. He was born in 1843, and became attaché in the diplomatic service in 1865. In 1869 he was promoted 3d secretary, in 1873 2d secretary, and in 1885 1st secretary. He became secretary of embassy in 1890, minister plenipotentiary in 1894, and envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in 1896. He has served in the United States, the Netherlands, Guatemala, Greece, Denmark, China, Russia, and France. He received the Jubilee Medal in 1897 and the Coronation Medal in 1902. In 1896- 1908 he was British minister at The Hague and Luxemburg. During the European War he was sent as minister plenipotentiary in British mission to the Pope, remaining from 1914 to 1916.
Howard KATHLEEN, an American opera singer
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
KATHLEEN, an American opera singer; born in Canada of English parents. She became a naturalized citizen of the United States. She studied in New York and Paris and began her career as a church singer in New York City. After studying opera in Germany she first appeared appeared in Metz, where she at once gained recognition. She sang in other opera companies in several other cities in Germany and in London. She was leading contralto of the Century Opera Company in New York in 1913 and and again in 1914-1915. She was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Co. from 1916. an 77, and took post-
Howard FRANCIS, a British artist
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
FRANCIS, a British artist. He was born in 1874, and was educated at St. Edmund's and St. Augustine's Roman Catholic colleges, and in Germany, at Geneva and Paris. Studied art in Paris and London; was art critic of "Weekly Sun"; and organized in 1898 International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers. He was art chairman at Jamestown Exposition in 1907, and from that year to 1920 has organized many art exhibitions, in which he has been represented. His publications include: "Illustrated Catalogue of the Second National Loan Exhibition" (woman and child in art), and a large number of biographical and other catalogues.
Howard ERONSON, an American playwright
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
ERONSON, an American playwright; born in Detroit, Mich., Oct. 7, 1842. He was connected with several newspapers in New York City, 1867- 1872. Among his successful plays are: "Saratoga" (1870); "The Banker's Daughter" (1878); "Young Mrs. Winthrop" (1882); "The Henrietta" and "Met by Chance" (1887); "Shenandoah" (1889); "Aristocracy" (1892); "Peter Stuyvesant" (with Brander Matthews); etc. He died Aug. 4, 1908.
Howard CATHERINE, 5th wife of Henry VIII
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
CATHERINE, 5th wife of Henry VIII.; born about 1520, was the daughter of Edmund Howard, 3d son of the second Duke of Norfolk. She was married, in 1540, to the king; but two years afterward he sent her to the scaffold under pretext of unfaithfulness.
Howard one of the oldest families of England
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
one of the oldest families of England. The principal are: THOMAS
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Of the ten Howards gathered here, the ducal line has proved the most durable: the Howards are still Dukes of Norfolk and hereditary Earls Marshal, staging coronations into the present century, and the Arundel marbles that Collier's notes were given to Oxford about 1668 are still there in the Ashmolean. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, whom Aiton's in 1910 credited with importing the sonnet and writing the first English blank verse, holds that place in the histories today. John Howard's name has outgrown him: the Howard League for Penal Reform, which carries it, remains Britain's oldest penal reform charity, while Oliver Otis Howard is now remembered less as McKinley's military adviser than as the man Howard University in Washington is named for, and as the general who pursued Chief Joseph's Nez Perce in 1877, a campaign modern historians judge far more harshly than Collier's did. The lesser figures moved in unexpected directions: Leland Ossian Howard ran the federal Bureau of Entomology until 1927 and pushed the mosquito work Collier's mentions into public health practice, and Kathleen Howard, the opera singer, left the Metropolitan for Hollywood, best known now as W. C. Fields's browbeating wife in It's a Gift (1934).
Written for this edition, 2026.