Early Life
Howson was one of the four sons of William Howson of Settle, author of An Illustrated Guide to the Curiosities of Craven (1850), and Headmaster of Penrith School; and the grandson of the Reverend J. Howson, second master of Giggleswick School. He was himself educated at Giggleswick, which he left in July 1879, and then at Merton College, Oxford. He matriculated at Oxford in 1879 and graduated BA (taking a First in the Final Honours School of Natural Science) in 1883 and MA in 1886.
All of his brothers attended Giggleswick School, Hubert Howson (born 1857) becoming a lawyer and settling in New York, and Charles James Howson (born 1852) becoming a bank manager and Justice of the Peace at Chesterfield.
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