[1] He became involved in Conservative politics before the First World War, and was a supporter of the Tariff Reform League.
[1] During the war he fought on the Western Front, and was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal for conspicuous gallantry at the Battle of Cambrai.
[3][4] He was a member of the Municipal Reform Party, the Conservative-backed group that held a majority on the county council.
[7] Howard first contested an election to the House of Commons in 1924 as Conservative candidate for Islington South.
[1][10] He was President of the Islington South West Conservative Association at the time of his death, aged 64, in a London hospital in 1953.