Walter Henry Howard

While serving as headmaster, he was a member of the South Australian Militia, appointed lieutenant in 1889[5] He undertook studies leading to priesthood at St Barnabas' College and was ordained in 1897.

[10] He was, in addition, made rural dean of Eyre's Peninsula in 1908, a demanding position which entailed regular travel by horse and buggy across hard country, conducting services and sacraments in whatever hall or schoolroom was available, days or weeks away from his home and family.

In December 1920 he was admitted to Port Augusta Hospital, seriously ill, but Church law prevented his repatriation to Adelaide,[16] so he resigned, and was replaced by Rev.

He had been head of Pulteney Street School for 14 years and in holy orders for 52, much of that time as a lonely pioneer in harsh country.

[11] Howard was exposed to the principles of single tax in Henry George's book Progress and Poverty, which he was convinced would solve many economic and social problems.