15 January 1887 Spalding, Lincolnshire, England[1]
Died
19 November 1970 (aged 83)[2] Eastbourne, Sussex, England[3]
Children
4
Sir John Curtois Howard KC (15 January 1887 – 19 November 1970) was an English magistrate who was the 27th Chief Justice of Ceylon. He was appointed in 1939 succeeding the acting Francis Soertsz and was Chief Justice until 1945. He was succeeded by Arthur Wijewardena, also after the acting Francis Soertsz.[4][5]
Howard was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, to FitzAlan Howard and Edith Thacker. He was educated at Uppingham School and Clare College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar a year before the First World War, and his career was interrupted by six years in the British Army.[6]
After the war, he accepted a job in the Colonial Legal Service, serving as Attorney General of Cyprus,[7] Solicitor-General of Nigeria and Attorney-General of the Gold Coast (now Ghana). In 1936, he was promoted to Legal Secretary, Ceylon. After returning to England, from 1953 to 1957, he was chairman of the Police Council for Great Britain. He was recalled by Sir William Fitzgerald as "a strikingly handsome man with a commanding presence."[6]
Howard was knighted in the 1942 New Year Honours.[8]
^"Sir John Howard". The Times. 20 November 1970. p. 14.
^England & Wales, Civil Registration Death Index, 1916-2007
^"Overview". Judicial Service Commission Secretariat. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 19 October 2013.
^"HOWARD, Sir John Curtois". Who's Who & Who Was Who. A & C Black. Retrieved 7 January 2013. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ ab"Obituary: Sir John Howard – Former Ceylon Chief Justice". The Times. 21 November 1970. p. 14.
^Kyprianou, Despina (2009). The Role of the Cyprus Attorney General's Office in Prosecutions: Rhetoric, Ideology and Practice: Rhetoric, Ideology and Practice. Springer. p. 231. ISBN 9783642019210.
^"No. 35455". The London Gazette. 13 February 1942. p. 715.
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