Source: Pudsey News
Date: 1877 12 21
Subject: Death of Rev. W. L. Howarth
We regret to have to record the death of the Rev. William Leo
Howarth, at his Leeds residence, Elmwood house, Claypit Lane, on Friday
morning last, the 14th inst. the deceased gentleman was born within
a short distance of his death, in the year 1819, and was a distant relative
of the Rev. W. Howarth, who was for 50 years incumbent of All Saints
Chapel, Pudsey. He was educated at Fulneck, Doncaster schools and Leeds
Grammar school and graduated at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was
ordained to the curacy of St Laurence Church, Pudsey, in 1843, which
office he held about seven years. he was afterward appointed to the
cure of St Thomas's Stanningley, which he held for some 13 years. In
1865 he married Mary, daughter of the late Mr Thomas Banks, of Pudsey,
and sister to Mr. James Banks, by whom, however, he left no issue...
on the death of the late John Farrer esq., Mr Howarth succeeded to the
possession of grove house, Pudsey...(more)...The deceased was interred
at the Pudsey Cemetery, in the vault in which his wife is buried.
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