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JOHN SAUL HOWSON (1816-1885)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 840 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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JOHN See also:SAUL See also:HOWSON (1816-1885)  , See also:English divine, was See also:born at Giggleswick-in-See also:Craven, See also:Yorkshire, on the 5th of May 1816 . After receiving his See also:early See also:education at Giggleswick school, of which. his See also:father was See also:head-See also:master, he went to Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge, and there became See also:tutor successively to the See also:marquis of See also:Sligo and the marquis of Lorne . In 1845 See also:Howson, having taken orders, accepted the See also:post of See also:senior classical master at the See also:Liver-See also:pool College under his friend W . J . See also:Conybeare, whom he succeeded as See also:principal in 1849 . This post he held until 1865, and it was largely due to his See also:influence that a similar college for girls was established at See also:Liverpool . In 1866 he See also:left Liverpool for the vicarage of See also:Wisbech, and in 1867 he was appointed See also:dean of See also:Chester See also:Cathedral, where he gave himself vigorously to the See also:work of restoring the crumbling fabric, See also:collecting nearly £1oo,000 in five years for this purpose . His sympathies were with the evangelical party, and he stoutly opposed the " Eastward position," but he was by no means narrow . He did much to reintroduce the See also:ministry of See also:women as deaconesses . The See also:building of the See also:King's School for boys, and the See also:Queen's School for girls (both in Chester), was due in a See also:great measure to the active See also:interest which he took in educational matters . He died at See also:Bournemouth on the 15th of See also:December 1885, and was buried in the See also:cloister See also:garth of Chester . Howson's See also:chief See also:literary See also:production was The See also:Life and Epistles of St See also:Paul (1852) in which he collaborated with Conybeare .

Adventures in the IVildr of See also:

Australia (18J4), See also:Land, Labour and See also:Gold; or, Two Years in See also:Victoria (1855) and Tallangetta, the Squatter's See also:Home (18J7) . On his return to See also:England Howitt had settled at See also:Highgate and resumed his indefatigable See also:book-making . From 1856 to 1862 he was engaged on See also:Cassell's Illustrated See also:History of England, and from 1861 to 1864 he and his wife worked at the Ruined Abbeys and Castles of Great See also:Britain . The Howitts had left the Society of See also:Friends in 1847, and became interested in See also:spiritualism . In 1863 appeared The History of the Super-natural in all Ages and Nations, and in all Churches, See also:Christian and See also:Pagan, demonstrating a Universal Faith, by See also:William Howitt . He added " his own conclusions from a See also:practical examination of the higher phenomena through a course of seven years." From 1870 onwards Howitt `spent the summers in See also:Tirol and the winters in See also:Rome, where he died on the 3rd of See also:March 1879 . See also:Mary Howitt was much affected by his See also:death, and in 1882 she joined the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church, towards which she had been gradually moving during her connexion with spiritualism . She died at Rome on the 3oth of See also:January 1888 . The Howitts are remembered for their untiring efforts to provide wholesome and instructive literature . Their son, See also:Alfred William Howitt, made himself a name by his explorations in Australia . See also:Anna Mary Howitt married See also:Alaric Alfred See also:Watts, and was the author of Pioneers of the Spiritual See also:Reformation (1883) . Mary Howitt's autobiography was edited by her daughter,See also:Margaret Howitt, in 1889 .

William Howitt wrote some fifty books, and his wife's publications, inclusive of See also:

translations, number over a See also:hundred .

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