Lot 547
Naval interest. A collection relating to the career of Capt. John Henry Howard RN (1827 - 1926) including diary covering his early years, 1835 - 1840, first posting on board HMS Rodney at Devonport in September 1840; ALS to his father from the naval instructor on Rodney reporting on the young midshipman, 1841; ms. sea chart in ink of "Part of the Querimba Islands (1827)" with pencil note by JHH "HMS Hydra got aground on coral in endeavouring to go through Dupont pass… came off without damage."; covering letter from the Admiralty awarding him the medal for services in Egypt (this crossed out and replaced with Syria in ms., torn), 1850; letter advising him of his election as Honorary Member of the Royal Yacht Squadron, 1875; letter from General Sir William Jervis and others, printed Souvenir of the Royal Naval Exhibition [1891], 8vo., orig. cloth gilt, photographic illustrations; album, fine ridged green calf, a.e.g., with gilt clasps in orig. cloth box, containing mainly family portrait photographs, window mounted, but including the Prince and Princess of Wales, and group at the Naval College Portsmouth, 1862. (a lot)
Capt. Howard was the second son of the Very Rev. Hon. Henry E.J. Howard, Dean of Lichfield (see lot XXX), and lived at Rushett, Faversham, Kent. The incident relating to HMS Hydra took place on 20th Feb. 1854 in the Indian Ocean off Mozambique.
