Author: Howlett, John Henry
Biography:
HOWLETT, John Henry (1781-1867: ancestry.co.uk)
He was born on 10 June 1781 and baptised on 6 July at Maidstone, Kent, the only son of the Rev. John Howlett (1731-1804), Vicar of Great Dunmow, Essex, from 1782 until his death, and his wife, Sarah Bunnett, who had married in 1774. John Henry Howlett was educated at Merchant Taylor’s school and Pembroke College Cambridge (matric. 1800, BA 1804, MA 1807, Fellow 1806-7) and then entered the church. He was Vicar of Hollington, Sussex (1812-34) and Rector of Foston, Leicestershire, (1834-67). He married Mary Brattle (1781-1813) on15 Oct. 1807 at Wateringbury. They had at least three children. He then married Sarah Ayerst (1789-1830) on 16 July 1818 at Hawkhurst. They had at least a further two sons and a daughter. Although he held various livings outside London, he also held the prestigious post of Chaplain to the Chapel Royal, Whitehall, and seems to have lived in Kensington for over thirty years. He had signed the preface to his Metrical Chronology (1824) from 9 Young Street, Kensington; his second wife died there in 1830; he and his children are recorded there in the 1851 and 1861 Censuses. He died on 10 Oct. 1867 at Risden, Hawkhurst, Kent, leaving an estate of under £16,000. Metrical Chronology (1824) consists of short extracts of verse elaborately glossed with historical notes and chronologies. (ancestry.co.uk 3 Feb. 2022; findmypast.co.uk 3 Feb. 2022; CCEd 3 Feb. 2022; Morning Chronicle 20 Oct. 1807; Champion 7 Feb. 1813; Morning Post 18 July 1818; London Packet 9 June 1830; GM Nov. 1867, 691) AA