Edward Henry Howard

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Edward Henry Howard (1829-1892) was an English Catholic priest and archbishop, who was made a Cardinal in 1877, and was then styled Edward Cardinal Howard.

He was the son of Edward Charles Howard of Glossop, and received his primary education at Oscott. After a short stint of service as an officer with the Life Guards (British Army), he resigned his commission to enter the English College at Rome, where he was ordained. He served as a missionary in Goa, India. After his return to Rome, he continued to work with Englishmen who wished to convert from Anglicanism to the Catholic Church. He was made Archbishop of Neocaesaria in partibus in 1872, and was promoted to Cardinal five years later as part of his promotion to become the Protector of the English College as well as an Archpriest at Saint Peter's Basilica.

Just before his death, he retired to Brighton. He is buried at the Fitzalan Chapel in Arundel, West Sussex.

(reference: The Duke of Norfolk, A Quincentennial History by John Martin Robinson)