Henry Howarth, Rector of St George's, Hanover Square and Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria.

On his paternal side, his grandfather Lt. J. Bashford (later Captain), Royal Navy, was mentioned in the official list of the wounded at the Battle of Trafalgar in which he took part on board HMS Royal Sovereign.

[5] He was created a knight-bachelor of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, announced in the King’s birthday honours on 9 June 1938.

[2] Bashford is now remembered as a writer, in particular of the satirical Augustus Carp, Esq., By Himself: Being the Autobiography of a Really Good Man (1924), which was first published anonymously.

In 1908 Bashford married Margaret Eveline, daughter of Ernest Sutton of Basildon, Berkshire.