Joseph Jackson Howard,

LL.D. Legum Doctor (Latin: “teacher of the laws”) (LL.D.) or, in English, Doctor of Laws, is a doctorate-level academic degree in law or an honorary degree, depending on the jurisdiction. The double “L” in the abbreviation refers to the early ...

, FSA (12 April 1827 – 18 April 1902) was an English genealogist who was Maltravers Herald of Arms Extraordinary 1887-1902.

Life

The only son of Peter Howard of Clifton Cottage, Portland Place, Leamington, he was educated at

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. He entered

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in 1847 and was called to the bar in 1856. A pioneer of the Civil Service Cooperative Stores, which became the Civil Service Supply Association, of which he was Chairman, he became Maltravers Herald Extraordinary in 1887. Having been elected Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1854, he originated and was editor of ''Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica'' from 1866, was a founder of the

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, and joint-founder and editor of ''The Visitation of England and Wales'', 1893, and ''The Visitation of Ireland'', 1897. An early collector of

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, he purchased in 1859 the collection of Miss Maria Jenkins, and published examples of the bookplates of

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s in 1895. Howard married in 1862 Ellen Clare West, the daughter of Joshua and Ann West. His body rests in

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Cemetery.

References

*Obituary in ''Miscellanea Genealogica & Heraldica'', June 1902 * Brian North Lee, ''Some Bookplates of Heralds'', 2003
The Bookplate Society

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Howard, Joseph Jackson 1827 births 1902 deaths English genealogists English antiquarians English barristers Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 19th-century English lawyers Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London