Sir Edward Howard, 2nd Baronet

Hamilton Edward de Coucey Howard was born on 19 October 1915.[1][2] His father was Sir Seymour Howard, 1st Baronet (1886–1967) and his mother, Edith Maud Turner.[1][2] He attended Institut Le Rosey, a boarding school near Rolle, Switzerland, and graduated from Radley College, a boarding school in Radley, Oxfordshire, and from Worcester College, Oxford.[1] He served in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War.[1]

He worked as a stockbroker at the London Stock Exchange.[1] An entrepreneur, he purchased Eucryl, a small company from Southampton which made tooth powder and turned it into a successful company.[2] From 1971 to 1982, he served as Chairman of the London Rubber Company, later known as SSL International.[2] Later, he served as Senior Partner and Chairman of Charles Stanley Group (LSE: CAY), and Chairman of the Advanced Electronics Company Limited.[2]

He served as an Alderman of the City of London.[1][2] He then served as Sheriff of the City of London in 1966, and as Lord Mayor of London from 1971 to 1972.[1][2] He also served as Lieutenant of the City of London from 1976 to 1990.[1][2]

He became the 2nd Howard baronets of Great Rissington in 1967.[1] He became Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire in 1972 and a Knight of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, both in 1972.[1]

He married Elizabeth Howarth Ludlow on 10 July 1943.[1] They had two sons:

• Sir David Howarth Seymour Howard, 3rd Baronet (born 1945).[1]
• John Ludlow Seymour Howard (born 1948).[1]

They resided in the North Downs.[2] He did not drink alcohol, and he enjoyed gardening.[2] He died on 16 March 2001.[1]