William Howe

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• - David Quidnunc on Fri 21 Mar 2003, 05:36am. Flag this

  To 1660

  The son of William Howe of Windsor and brother of Jack Howe, he was a “junior colleague of Pepys” as one of Mountagu’s men and lived in Mountagu’s Whitehall lodgings. He was with Mountagu on the Baltic voyage in 1659 and then on the 1660 Holland trip.

  He likes to sing and play the viol and violin.

  — L&M Volumes 10 (Companion) and 11 (Index)

• - David Quidnunc on Fri 21 Mar 2003, 05:41am. Flag this

  After the period of the Diary

  Howe moved to Barbados where, by 1680, he was married and had two children. At some point he became a judge there.

  — Companion volume (10)

• - Pauline on Tue 1 Apr 2003, 05:49am. Flag this

  In 1660 on board the Naseby,
  Will Howe was Montagu’s clerk. He made music with Sam while they were at sea. He continues as part of Montagu’s household, and a friend of Sam’s, when Montagu is made Earl of Sandwich.

References in the diary

1660

Mar: 2, 3, 10, 20, 23, 24, 26, 29, 31
Apr: 2, 6, 8, 9, 11, 17, 18, 21, 23, 25, 26, 28, 30
May: 5, 7, 17, 18, 19, 27, 31
Jun: 1, 7, 9, 19, 22, 27
Jul: 3, 6, 8, 11, 13, 26, 28
Aug: 1, 5, 15
Oct: 4
Nov: 7, 10

1661

Feb: 17, 23
Apr: 23
May: 19, 22
Jun: 9, 13

1662

May: 24
Sep: 1, 3
Oct: 7, 8
Nov: 3, 25
Dec: 14, 15, 29, 31

1663

Jan: 22
Feb: 8
Mar: 1, 23, 24, 29
Apr: 29
May: 1, 18, 20
Jun: 4
Aug: 10, 19
Sep: 19
Nov: 12, 20, 22, 23, 30
Dec: 14, 21, 22

1664

Jan: 1, 18
Feb: 3, 8, 29
Mar: 3
Apr: 1, 12
May: 30
Jun: 9, 20, 23
Jul: 5, 16
Oct: 21

1665

Mar: 4, 12, 20
Apr: 14
Jun: 28
Sep: 18
Nov: 16, 17, 19, 20, 23, 26
Dec: 15, 18

1666

Jan: 7, 22, 24, 30
Feb: 14, 23

1667

Jan: 6
May: 19
Jul: 29
Aug: 8
Sep: 1, 8
Oct: 6
Dec: 8

1668

Feb: 25, 26
Mar: 29
May: 17
Jul: 12
Aug: 13, 23
Sep: 10, 28
Nov: 15, 23
Dec: 27

1669

Mar: 2, 12, 14, 21
Apr: 25