William Howley

The Most Reverend and Right Honourable

William Howley
The Most Reverend and Right Honourable; William Howley
Archbishop of Canterbury
	Portrait by William Owen
Province	Canterbury
Diocese	Canterbury
See	Canterbury
Installed	1828
Term ended	1848
Predecessor	Charles Manners-Sutton
Successor	John Bird Sumner
Orders
Consecration	10 October 1813; by Charles Manners-Sutton
Personal details
Born	12 February 1766; Ropley, Hampshire, England
Died	11 February 1848 (aged 81); Lambeth, Surrey, England
Buried	St Mary the Blessed Virgin Church, Addington, London

William Howley (12 February 1766 – 11 February 1848) was a clergyman in the Church of England. He served as Archbishop of Canterbury from 1828 to 1848.

Early life, education, and interests

Howley was born in 1766 at

Canon of Christ Church, Oxford

in 1804).

He was an active English

Master of the Lodge.^[3]^[4]

In October 1813, at Lambeth Palace, he was consecrated Bishop of London, a post he was to occupy until 1828, when he became Archbishop of Canterbury.

Life as Archbishop of Canterbury

Howley was Archbishop during the

Great Reform Act 1832. The bench of bishops was generally opposed to all three measures. As archbishop, Howley was their spokesman, and his heart-felt opposition to the Great Reform Act led to his carriage being attacked in the streets of Canterbury.^[5]

Like very many other bishops at that time, Howley was an "old-

Tractarians and their beliefs were often obscured,^[how?] for example, in Richard William Church's classic account of the Oxford Movement

.

Archbishop Howley presided over the coronation of

Connop Thirwall

.

At 5.00 a.m. on 20 June 1837, accompanied by the

Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He presided at her coronation on 28 June 1838.^[6]

Architecture was of particular interest to him. During his career, he initiated the renovation and rebuilding of: his official house at Oxford, his town residence while Bishop of London (32

Gothic Revival

style. It took several years and cost upwards of £60,000.

Queen Victoria receiving the news of her accession to the throne. The archbishop is on the right.

Family life

William Howley was married on 29 August 1805 to Mary Frances Belli, a daughter of John Belli, EICS, (1740–1805) of Southampton who had been Private Secretary to Warren Hastings. The Howleys had two sons and three daughters; neither son reached adulthood. One of his daughters married Sir George Howland Willoughby Beaumont, a nephew of Sir George Beaumont, 7th Baronet. William Howley died in 1848 1 day before his 82nd birthday, and was interred at Addington after an elaborate funeral.

References

^
ISBN 9781472451330
.

^ Powell, Arthur Cecil; Littleton, Joseph (1910). A History of Freemasonry in Bristol (First ed.). Bristol: Bennett Brothers.
^ "Presentation to Dr George Oliver". The Freemasons' Quarterly Review. June 1844(Referencing Howley's Mastership){{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
^ "From the Herald". The Freemasons' Quarterly Review. June 1835(An account of the initiation){{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
^ "Assault on His Grace The Archbishop of Canterbury". The Times. No. 14927. London. 10 August 1832. p. 3.
^ "Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859) - Queen Victoria Receiving the Sacrament at her Coronation, 28 June 1838". www.rct.uk.

External links

Media related to William Howley at Wikimedia Commons
Howley's papers as Bishop of London
Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury

Academic offices
Preceded by Charles Henry Hall	Regius Professor of Divinity at Oxford 1809–1813	Succeeded by William Van Mildert
Church of England titles
Preceded by John Randolph	Bishop of London 1813–1828	Succeeded by Charles James Blomfield
Preceded by Charles Manners-Sutton	Archbishop of Canterbury 1828–1848	Succeeded by John Bird Sumner

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ISBN 9781472451330
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[2] Powell, Arthur Cecil; Littleton, Joseph (1910). A History of Freemasonry in Bristol (First ed.). Bristol: Bennett Brothers.

[3] "Presentation to Dr George Oliver". The Freemasons' Quarterly Review. June 1844(Referencing Howley's Mastership){{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

[4] "From the Herald". The Freemasons' Quarterly Review. June 1835(An account of the initiation){{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

[5] "Assault on His Grace The Archbishop of Canterbury". The Times. No. 14927. London. 10 August 1832. p. 3.

[6] "Charles Robert Leslie (1794-1859) - Queen Victoria Receiving the Sacrament at her Coronation, 28 June 1838". www.rct.uk.

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During the Reformation	John Stokesley Edmund Bonner (1st) Nicholas Ridley Edmund Bonner (2nd)
Post-Reformation	Edmund Grindal Edwin Sandys John Aylmer Richard Fletcher Richard Bancroft Richard Vaughan Thomas Ravis George Abbot John King George Montaigne William Laud William Juxon Episcopacy abolished (Commonwealth) William Juxon Gilbert Sheldon Humphrey Henchman Henry Compton John Robinson Edmund Gibson Thomas Sherlock Thomas Hayter Richard Osbaldeston Richard Terrick Robert Lowth Beilby Porteus John Randolph William Howley Charles James Blomfield Archibald Campbell Tait John Jackson Frederick Temple Mandell Creighton Arthur Winnington-Ingram Geoffrey Fisher William Wand Henry Montgomery Campbell Robert Stopford Gerald Ellison Graham Leonard David Hope Richard Chartres Pete Broadbent (Acting) Sarah Mullally

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Early life, education, and interests

Life as Archbishop of Canterbury

Family life

References

Further reading

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