Political Career
Howard sat as Member of Parliament (MP) for Eskdale from 1906 to 1910, for Westbury from 1911 to 1918 and for Luton from 1923 to 1924. He was private secretary to the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, Harold Tennant, between 1909 and 1910, and to prime minister H. H. Asquith between 1910 and 1911. In 1911 Asquith appointed him Vice-Chamberlain of the Household, a post he held until 1915, and then served as a Junior Lord of the Treasury from 1915 to 1916.
Apart from his political career Howard was also a Justice of Peace and a temporary lieutenant in the Royal Naval Division in 1914. In 1931 he became Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire, which he remained until his death four years later.
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