Richard Howse (1820/1–1901)

Schoolteacher, geologist, and museum curator. Schoolteacher in South Shields, County Durham, then Newcastle-upon-Tyne, until appointed as permanent museum curator to the Natural History Society of Northumberland in 1882. General curator, museum of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1866–1901; editor of the society’s transactions. One of the secretaries of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club, 1876–1901; vice-president, 1861–4, 1866–8, 1870–1.