Stafford Howard

Sir Edward Stafford Howard KCB, DL, JP (28 November 1851 – 8 April 1916), was a British Liberal politician and magistrate.

A member of the influential Howard family headed by the Duke of Norfolk, Howard was the second son of Henry Howard, son of Lord Henry Howard-Molyneux-Howard and nephew of Bernard Howard, 12th Duke of Norfolk. His mother was Charlotte Caroline Georgina Long, daughter of Henry Lawes Long and Catharine Long of Hampton Lodge, Surrey. He was the younger brother of Henry Howard and the elder brother of Lord Howard of Penrith. He was educated at Harrow School and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar at Inner Temple.

Howard entered Parliament as one of two representatives for Cumberland East at a by-election in 1876, a seat he held until 1885 when the constituency was abolished under the Redistribution of Seats Act 1885. At the 1885 general election, he was elected as MP for Thornbury until he was defeated at the 1886 election. He served briefly as Under-Secretary of State for India from April to July 1886 in William Ewart Gladstone's short-lived third administration. Howard was later Senior Commissioner of HM's Woods and Forests. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the 1900 Birthday Honours and a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 1909 Birthday Honours. He served as Mayor of the town of Llanelly from 1913 to 1916. He was an Ecclesiastical Commissioner from 1914 to his death. He was also a Justice of the Peace and a Deputy Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.

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