Politician, barrister and amateur historian and geologist.
This person is the subject of ongoing research. We have started by researching their relationship to the enslavement of people.
Henry Howorth’s father was in partnership with Henry Hoyle, of whom Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth was clearly the namesake, in a mercantile firm in Lisbon in the period when Portugal’s former colony Brazil was still a slave-economy. (The London Gazette [online], 20 April 1849, <https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/20970/page/1332> accessed 5 August 2021, 1332.) The extent to which Howorth’s father traded in produce from the labour of enslaved people is currently unknown.
No known connections with abolition.
National Gallery painting connections
Donor: Howarth presented in 1875: NG924; in 1922: NG3647–3650, NG3665; in 1923: NG3817.
History of Parliament Trust (ed.), The History of Parliament: British Political, Social & Local History, London 1964-, https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/
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