Philip Charles Nicholas Howard (2 November 1933 – 5 October 2014) was a British journalist who worked for over fifty years at The Times.
[1] A keen classicist all his life, he was on the committee of the Horatian Society, and was elected in 2002 President of the Classical Association of Great Britain.
In 2004 he 'scooped' with evident relish the story of the presentation of an Ode in Pindaric Greek commissioned from an Oxford don for the forthcoming Athens Olympics.
[3] Between 1956 and 1958, Howard undertook his national service with the Black Watch as a motor transport officer.
He had a highly individual style, and wrote with wit, concision, and allusive humour.