Henry Eliot Howard

Henry Eliot Howard was born at Stone House,{{efn|Now known as "{{ill|The Stonehouse|qid=Q26461417}}", the early 18th-century building, still extant, was Grade II listed in 1958;{{cite web |title=The Stonehouse, Stone - 1168002 |url=https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1168002 |publisher=Historic England |access-date=10 August 2020 }} coordinates: {{Coord|52.37368|-2.203982 |region:GB_type:landmark |name=The Stonehouse}}}} at Stone, near Kidderminster,{{sfn|Lowe|1941|p=195}}[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/100958 Kinlen, L. J. Howard, (Henry) Eliot Oxford Dictionary of National Biography entry Retrieved 1 May 2015] second son of Henry Howard and Alice Gertrude Thomson. He studied at Stoke Poges, Eton, and Mason College (the forerunner of the University of Birmingham).{{sfn|Burkhardt|n.d.}} He entered his father's steelworks firm, Lloyd and Lloyd in Worcester, becoming a director in 1896. Then in 1903 a director of the enlarged firm, Stewarts & Lloyds.

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He showed from his earliest childhood an intense love of natural history. It was not until 1914 that his first work, British Warblers, illustrated by Henrik Grönvold, was fully published, having been issued in parts since 1907.{{sfn|Burkhardt|n.d.}} Continually working on the theory of territory, he published Territory in Bird Life, illustrated by George Edward Lodge and Henrik Grönvold, in 1920 (a reissue in 1948 had an introduction by Julian Huxley and James Fisher), followed by An Introduction to the Study of Bird Behaviour, Nature of a Bird's World and lastly A Waterhen's Worlds, in 1940. His books were published under the name "Eliot Howard".

He was a Justice of the Peace{{cite web |url=http://thepeerage.com/p17472.htm|title=Person Page 17472 (Reverend John William Fletcher Boughey) |work=thePeerage.com |access-date=16 July 2011}} and for forty-five years a member of the British Ornithologists' Union,{{sfn|Burkhardt|n.d.}} including a period as a vice-president.

His home was always in Worcestershire. In 1900 he still gave his address as Stone House, but once married he and his wife lived at 'Clareland', Hartlebury, which overlooked the River Severn, and in whose grounds he conducted much of his ornithological research{{efn|{{ill|Clareland|qid=Q26510523}} is extant, and was Grade II listed in 1969.;{{cite web |title=Clareland, Hartlebury - 1215681 |url=https://www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1215681 |publisher=Historic England |access-date=10 August 2020 }} coordinates: {{Coord|52.323735|-2.256792 |region:GB_type:landmark |name=Clareland }} }}{{sfn|Lowe|1941|p=195}} Nonetheless, much of his time was spent on the wild coast of Donegal and in the north west of Ireland, shooting, fishing and studying natural history. He was attracted to the wild and beautiful area of Horn Head in the North West of Donegal, close to the Atlantic Ocean, through his marriage in 1900 to Anne Elizabeth Frances Stewart (1875–1960) whose family had lived there for many years (the 1901 census of Ireland shows his wife was born in Donegal). He died of meningitis at Clareland on 26 December 1940 and was buried at St Mary's Church, Bishops Green, Stourport, on 30 December. An obituary was published in The Times on 28 December.

His papers are in the Alexander Library, at the University of Oxford.

His father, Henry was a manufacturing chemist and was son of John Eliot Howard. John's father was Luke Howard. The 1901 Census shows Henry Eliot as an 'Iron tube manufacturer'.

The Howards had two sons and four daughters. One daughter, Esme Eleanor Howard, married the Reverend John William Fletcher Boughey, son of the Reverend Percy Fletcher Boughey and Elsie de Strange Herring, on 25 April 1940.

File:Eliot Howard - A Waterhen's Worlds - dustjacket.jpg

• {{cite book

|last=Howard|first=Eliot|author-link=Henry Eliot Howard

|title=The British Warblers: A History with Problems of Their Lives|url=https://archive.org/details/Britishwarblers00HowaE|publisher=R. H. Porter|year=1907–14}} 2 vols.

• {{cite book

|last=Howard|first=Eliot|author-mask=2

|title=Territory in Bird Life|url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924090269600|publisher=John Murray|year=1920}}

• {{cite book

|last=Howard|first=Eliot|author-mask=2

|title=An Introduction to the Study of Bird Behaviour|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1929}}

• {{cite book|last=Howard|first=Eliot|author-mask=2

|title=The Nature of a Bird's World|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1935}}

• {{cite book|last=Howard|first=Eliot|author-mask=2

|title=A Waterhen's Worlds|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1940}}

• {{cite wikisource

|last=Howard |first=Henry Eliot |author-link=Henry Eliot Howard

|date=1899a

|title=Notes on Some Birds from North Worcestershire

|wslink=The Zoologist/4th series, vol 3 (1899)/Issue 696/Notes on Some Birds from North Worcestershire, Howard

|journal=The Zoologist

|publisher=4th series, vol. 3, issue 696 (June, 1899), p. 259–261

}}

• {{cite wikisource

|last=Howard |first=Henry Eliot |author-link=Henry Eliot Howard |author-mask=2

|date=1899b

|title=Ornithological Notes from the North-West of Ireland

|wslink=Ornithological Notes from the North-West of Ireland, Howard 1899

|journal=The Zoologist

|publisher=4th series, vol. 3, issue 701 (November, 1899), p. 481–485

}}

• {{cite journal

|last=Howard |first=Henry Eliot |author-link=Henry Eliot Howard |author-mask=2

|date=1900a

|title=Unusual Numbers of Green Plover in Worcestershire

|journal=The Zoologist

|volume=4th series, vol. 4

|issue= 706 (April, 1900), section 'Notes and Queries'

|pages=187

}}12px{{efn|Green plover: (Northern) lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)}}

• {{cite journal

|last=Howard |first=Henry Eliot |author-link=Henry Eliot Howard |author-mask=2

|date=1900b

|title=Variations in the Notes and Songs of Birds in different Districts

|journal=The Zoologist

|volume=4th series, vol. 4

|issue= 710 (August, 1900), section 'Notes and Queries'

|pages=382–383

}}12px

• {{cite wikisource

|last=Howard |first=Henry Eliot |author-link=Henry Eliot Howard |author-mask=2

|date=1901a

|title=The Grasshopper-Warbler (Locustella nævia) in North Worcestershire.

|wslink=The Grasshopper Warbler in North Worcestershire

|journal=The Zoologist

|publisher=4th series, vol. 5, issue 716 (February, 1901), p. 60–63

}}

• {{cite journal

|last=Howard |first=Henry Eliot |author-link=Henry Eliot Howard |author-mask=2

|date=1901b

|title=On the increase of the Starling and the Hawfinch

|journal=The Zoologist

|volume=4th series, vol. 5

|issue= 726 (December, 1901)

|pages=463-467

}}12px

• 1902a: 'On Mr. Selous' Theory of the Origin of Nests'. The Zoologist, 4th series, vol. 6, p. 145–148.
• 1902b: 'Cirl Bunting in Ireland'. The Zoologist, 4th series, vol. 6, (section 'Notes and Queries'), p. 353/4
• 1902c: 'The Birds of Sark; and Variation in Song'. The Zoologist, 4th series, vol. 6, p. 416–422.
• {{cite journal

|last=Howard |first=Henry Eliot |author-link=Henry Eliot Howard |author-mask=2

|title=On Sexual Selection and the Aesthetic Sense in Birds.

|date=1903

|journal=The Zoologist|volume=4|issue=7|pages=407–417

}}

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• {{cite encyclopedia

|last=Burkhardt |first=Richard W. Jr.

|date=n.d.

|title=Howard, Henry Eliot

|encyclopedia=Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography

|publisher=encyclopedia.com

|url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830905767.html

|access-date=2019-06-10

}}

• {{cite journal

|last=Lowe

|first=Percy R.

|date=1941

|title=Henry Eliot Howard. An Appreciation.

|journal=British Birds

|volume=34

|pages=195–197

|url=https://britishbirds.co.uk/article/obituary-henry-eliot-howard-an-appreciation/

|access-date=2019-06-10

|archive-date=8 August 2020

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200808060947/https://britishbirds.co.uk/article/obituary-henry-eliot-howard-an-appreciation/

|url-status=dead

}} (Also available via [https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48365872 BHL].)

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• [https://exhibitions.lib.udel.edu/we-will-remember-them/exhibition-item/the-diary-of-henry-howard-of-stone-house-kidderminster/ The diary of Henry Howard of Stone House – Kidderminster]

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