occupation

Bookbinder

dates

Born: 24 Nov 1846, Observatory Street,
at St Giles, Oxford; baptised 13 Jan 1847,
St Giles, Oxford

Married: 15 Nov 1868, Harriet OSBORNE, at
St James, Cowley, Oxford

Died: 22 Mar 1923, Kybald Twychen, Merton Street, Oxford

residence

Various Oxford locations: Adelaide Street; Beaumont Buildings; Marston Street

submitted by

Joan HOWARD-DRAKE, née CROOK
(great-granddaughter)

related face

Henry HOWSE (father)

Background information

He was apprenticed to Maltby’s the bookbinders and became a freeman of Oxford on 18th Aug 1868. At the time of his death he is said by the family to be the oldest freeman alive and living in a house for the freemen.

Some books bound by Henry, along with an ivory spatula that he (and his daughter Amy) used to crease the pages of books to be bound, are in the possession of the family. He was a staunch Conservative and a member of the Primrose League. He and the father of William MORRIS were friends and they went together to the Conservative Club in East Oxford.

Henry is said to be the baby in the photograph of Henry and Elizabeth HOWSE (click on Henry’s name under ‘Related Face’ above).