[Charles Edward Howard]. English statesman, born at Slinfold, Sussex, England, on the 31st of May 1849. He was educated at the Westminster School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst; entered the army as ensign in 1868, but retired as lieutenant in 1873 to take up the study of law; was captain of the Royal Berkshire Militia (1873–75); and lieutenant-colonel of the Central London Rangers (1875–78); began practicing law in 1876; was director of criminal investigations, (1878–84), during which time he reorganized the detective service; resigned to become a member of Parliament; was elected to the Metropolitan Board of Works for St. George’s in 1889; and was appointed in 1884 colonel-commandant of the Queen’s Westminster Volunteers. He was three times re-elected to Parliament, and was identified with the fair-trade movement, United Empire trade and British labor questions; was Berlin correspondent of the Daily Telegraph (1871), and military commissioner of the Daily Telegraph at the outbreak of the Russo-Turkish War in 1877. He traveled all over the world, and wrote Elementary Military Geography, Reconnoitring and Sketching (1872); The Improvement of the Volunteer Force (1878); The Law of Criticism and Libel (1876); Procédure d’Extradition (1880); and A Police Code and Manual of Criminal Law.
