Henry "Harry" Charles Howard JP DL (17 September 1850 – 4 August 1914) was an English Liberal politician and landowner in Cumbria, where he resided at Greystoke Castle.

[1] He left active politics for public work in Cumberland, though he maintained his connection with the Mid-Cumberland Liberal Association.

[2] After a cold turned into pneumonia, Howard died on 4 August 1914, at Greystoke Castle, aged 63.

The subscription raised £1,555 (equivalent to £157,000 in 2023, £1,200 of which was invested into the War Loan to endow a farm scholarship at Newton Rigg College, which he had helped found in 1896.

Prominent copyist D. A. Vere Smith painted the portrait after an original by Sir George Reid (1902) in the collection of Greystoke Castle.

The new portrait was unveiled by Lord Muncaster, Lord Lieutenant of Cumberland, in August 1915 at the Carlisle Courts, in a large ceremony attended by James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, Speaker of the House of Commons, who had unseated him in the 1886 election.