Frank Geere Howard

Howard was Mayor of Hampstead Borough Council on three occasions: 1921-22, 1923-24 and 1924-25.^[4]

In 1926 there was a casual vacancy for Hampstead on the London County Council following the resignation of Sir Andrew Taylor, and Howard was elected unopposed, as a member of the Municipal Reform Party.^[5] He was re-elected in 1928 and 1931.^[6] He did not seek re-election in 1934.^[7]

In 1921 (the centenary of the death of John Keats) Howard was responsible for the fund-raising activities that allowed Keats' House to be acquired by Hampstead Council.^[8][9] He was one of the original owners of the house in 1921 (then known as Lawn Bank) when it was taken into public ownership.^[10] He was also responsible for the acquisition by the London County Council of Kenwood and the Paddock, adding them to the public open spaces of Hampstead Heath.^[11][12]

Howard married Feona Mary Duport Wren (1862-1931) (the daughter of the Liberal / Progressive politician Walter Wren and his first wife, Eliza (née Cox)) in 1886 at St Mary Magdalene, Paddington.^[13] They had one son, George Wren Howard, who would become a book publisher with Jonathan Cape.

Howard died in 1935, aged 74.^[14]