Thomas Howes, Reverend (October 1728 - 29 September 1814) [1][2][3][4] was an English literary scholar, historian and minister.
[5] Howes was one of Joseph Priestley's main opponents in the so-called Unitarian disputes of the 1780s.
He took holy orders and after serving curacies in London he held the crown rectory of Morningthorpe from 1756.
Its followers claimed that Unitarianism was the faith of the primitive Christian church before later "corruptions" set in (e.g. Trinity).
[6] Howes was prompted to join in the Unitarian controversy by the publication of Priestley’s History of the Corruptions of Christianity in 1782.