Reverend John Saul Howson, Dean of Chester Aigues bearing rolls of cloth

bearing rolls of cloth

JMW Turner

high collared shirt and tie

who were organising a Reform banquet at Crystal Palace

'A Heavy Fall of Snow'

Reverend John Saul Howson, Dean of Chester Aigues bearing rolls of clothReverend John Saul Howson, Dean of Chester, 1882. Howson (1816 1885) was a prominent biblical scolar and archaeologist. As Dean of Chester from 1867 1885, he oversaw the restoration of the Cathedral as well as the endowment of the King's School for boys. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock