to her fifter. 
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ment there, he removed to another 
lodging-houfe in the fame ftreet, 
which was kept by a widow named 
Mrs. Sarah Lardeau. Here he was 
nurfed with the utmoft care and, 
attention ; and at length he became 
fo fond of his landlady, that he re- 
folved te marry her, out of grati- 
tude for her kindnefs to him. In 
vain fhe expoftulated with him upon 
the extravagance of fuch a pro- 
ceeding, he being about 28, and fhe 
about 51 years of age, and twenty 
years older in conititution; but 
nothing could deter him ; and they 
were privately married about the 
year 1752. She was poffeffed of a 
fmall fortune, which he prefented 
at Newington, the miniiter of the 
diffenting meeting-houfe there re- 
figned his office, and a fucceffor 
was elected ; and Mr. Howard, who 
was breda diffenter, and ftedfaftly 
adhered ail his life to that profeffion, 
propofed to purchafe the leafe of a 
houfe near the meeting-houfe, and 
tO appropriate it as a parfonage- 
houfe for the ufe of the minifter for 
the time being, and generoufly con- 
tributed 50 1. for that purpofe. His 
wife died November 10, 1755; and 
foon after he formed a refolution of 
Vifiting Lifbon, which had been 
ju before laid in ruins by the 
earthquake of November 1, 1755. 
_ About Midfummer 1756, he fet fail 
for Lifbon, on board the Hanover 
Packet, which was taken by a 
French privateer; and he behaved 
with fo much auteur, fo much & 
? Anglois, to the captain of the pri- 
vateer, as might probably be the 
caufe of his fuffering fo feverely as 
it appears he did, (fee “State of 
Prifons,” pp. 22 and 23, note): and 
« perhaps what he fuffered on this 
eccafion increafed” (if it did not'call 
During: his refidence ’ 
3 
forth) « his fympathy with the un- 
happy people whofe caufe is the fub- 
ject of this book.” —He afterwards, it 
is believed, made the tour of Italy 5 
and at his return fettled at Broken- 
hurft, a retired and pleafant villa 
in the New Foreft, near Lymington 
in Hampfhire, having, April 25, 
1758, married Harriet, daughter of 
Edward Leeds, efq. of Croxton, in 
the county of Cambridge, king’s fer- 
jeant. Mrs. Howard died in 1765, 
in child-bed, of her only child, a 
fon, who unfortunately kas been for 
feveral years lunatic, and now is, 
or lately was, under the care of T. 
Arnold, M. D. of Leicefter. Before 
the death of his fecond wife, he lefr 
Lymington, and purchafed an eftate 
at Cardington, near Bedford, ad- 
joining to that of his relation Mr. 
Whitbread. While he refided ar 
Cardington, he very much conci- 
liated the efteem of the poor, by 
employing them, building cottages 
for them, &c. Every Sunday he 
went to Bedford, attended both 
morning and evening fervice at one 
of the diflenting meeting-houles, 
and then returned home. He was 
univerfally efteemed by the Prefby. 
terians, Moravians, and all the other 
fetaries with which that borough 
abounds; and at the general elec- 
tion in 1774, offered himfelf with 
Mr. Whitbread, as a candidate to 
reprefent it in parliament. They 
were oppofed by Sir W. Wake, 
bart. and R. Sparrow, efq. wha 
were returned ; and Mr. Whitbread 
and Mr. Howard petitioning, the 
committee determined that Sir W. 
Wake and Mr. Whitbread were 
duly eleéted. In confequence of 
the act 19 Geo, III. for eltablifhing’ 
penitentiary houfes, the late Dr. 
Fothergill, Mr. Howard and Geo. 
Whatley, efquire, treafurer of the 
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