Artist, journalist; b. in Washington, D. C., January 1, 1874; only son of the late Francis Gassaway Howard and his wife (now Mrs. T. P. O’Connor); great grandson of Benjamin Franklin, collateral descendant of George Washington; m., 1903, L. Chess of Louisville, Ky. Ed. St. Edmund’s Ware and St. Augustine’s Ramsgate, Catholic Colleges; also in Germany, Geneva, and Paris. Studied art in Paris and London; for many years art-critic Weekly Sun, and contributor of art, dramatic, and literary criticism and verse to numerous periodicals and magazines; founded and organized the International Society of Sculptors, Painters, and Gravers in association with Whistler, Lavery, Guthrie, Walton, etc., 1898; organized art section of Woman’s Exhibition at Earl’s Court, 1901; Chairman Art and Antiquarian Committee of Jamestown Exposition, 1907, and special Commissioner; Exhibitor in most European and American Galleries; former director of The Sun and other newspapers. Clubs: Chelsea Art; United Arts. Address: 33 Warwick Square, S. W., London, England.
