Stephen Howard (politician)

[1] Howard described his profession as a tenant farmer[2] and is recorded as owning land in Kirtling, very near the border with West Suffolk.

Howard was President of East Cambridgeshire Liberal Association[5] and was then selected as the candidate for the Sudbury Division of Suffolk for the 1918 general election.

Although he was known to be a supporter of prime minister David Lloyd George[6] he was elected as a Liberal without receiving the coalition coupon.

[8] Howard was also one of a very few Liberals to win in a previously Conservative seat in 1918, so strong was the coalition government at that election.

He defeated Captain R G Proby, who was standing as a Coalition Unionist[9] Howard also stood in Sudbury at the 1922 general election this time as a Lloyd George National Liberal.