John Curtois Howard

Sir John Curtois Howard KC (15 January 1887 – 19 November 1970) was an English magistrate who was the 27th Chief Justice of Ceylon.

He was appointed in 1939 succeeding the acting Francis Soertsz and was Chief Justice until 1945.

[6] After the war, he accepted a job in the Colonial Legal Service, serving as Attorney General of Cyprus,[7] Solicitor-General of Nigeria and Attorney-General of the Gold Coast (now Ghana).

After returning to England, from 1953 to 1957, he was chairman of the Police Council for Great Britain.

He was recalled by Sir William Fitzgerald as "a strikingly handsome man with a commanding presence.