Charles Howard (Serjeant-at-Arms)

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GCVO, DSO* (1878–1958) was a British parliamentary official and army officer. He served as Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons
from 1935 to 1956.

Early life

Born on 29 July 1878, Howard was a member of the prominent

Redvers Henry Buller was Dame Georgiana Buller, DBE, RRC.[2]

Career

After schooling at

12th Infantry Brigade and Dover Garrison,[4] and received the freedom of the Borough of Dover on relinquishing his command.[3] He retired from the Army in 1936 and was promoted to the honorary rank of brigadier.[5]

In 1935, George V appointed Howard to the office of Serjeant-at-Arms of the House of Commons, which had previously been held by Admiral Sir Colin Keppel.[3] Howard built a reputation for upholding traditions and was well-regarded for having a "genial personality".[3] He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1944 and promoted to Knight Grand Cross in 1957, the year after he retired from his office.[3]

Retirement and personal life

Howard died on 5 January 1958.[3] In 1908, he had married Miriam Eleanore Dansey, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward Mashiter Dansey and his wife the Hon. Eleanor Gifford, daughter of Robert Gifford, 2nd Baron Gifford;[6][n 1] she died in 1969. They had two children, a daughter Diana who died young, and a son Henry Redvers Greville Howard (1911–1978), an army officer and the father of Greville Howard, Baron Howard of Rising.[6][8]

Likenesses

The National Portrait Gallery, London, possesses five photographic portraits of Howard taken between 1935 and 1947, all by Walter Stoneman (NPG x7671, x4671, x163250, x188930, x188931).

References

Notes

  1. ^ Miriam Dansey's brother was thus the intelligence officer Sir Claude Dansey.[7]

Citations

  1. ^ Burke's Peerage (2003), vol. 3, pp. 3816, 3926.
  2. ^ "Buller, Dame (Audrey Charlotte) Georgiana". Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2021). Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  3. ^
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  4. ^ a b c d "Howard, Brig. Sir Charles Alfred", Who Was Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2021). Retrieved 27 July 2021.
  5. ^ a b Half-Yearly Army List: 1939, Second Half (London: HMSO, 1939), p. 1330.
  6. ^ a b Burke's Peerage (2003), vol. 3, p. 3816.
  7. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
    (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2008). Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Howard of Rising, Baron, (Greville Patrick Charles Howard)", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2021). Retrieved 24 July 2021.
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