Henry Howe (actor)

After some experiments as an amateur under the name Halsingham, he made his debut at the Royal Victoria Theatre in London in October 1834, as Rashleigh Osbaldistone in a dramatization of Rob Roy.

[2] His performance in The Provoked Husband by John Vanbrugh was reviewed in The Athenaeum (24 November 1855): "Miss Cushman was carefully supported by Mr Howe, who, in the part of Lord Townly, rose to a degree of excellence that will serve to confirm the steady progress which he has lately been making in the good opinion of the public.

Here he played characters such as Old Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Antonio in Much Ado about Nothing and Twelfth Night, Germeuil in Robert Macaire by Benjamin Antier, Farmer Flamborough in Olivia by W. G. Wills, Burgomaster in Faust, and very many others.

[1] His son, Henry A. Hutchinson Howe, music and theatre critic on the Morning Advertiser, predeceased him, dying on 1 June 1894, aged sixty-one.

[2] John Joseph Knight wrote: "He was a thoroughly conscientious actor, and an exceptionally worthy and amiable man, whose one delight was to cultivate his garden at Isleworth.