Editing Luke Howard (section)

== Personal life ==
Luke Howard was born on 28 November 1772 in London to tin-plate manufacturer Robert Howard (1738–1812) and Elizabeth née Leatham (1742–1816). Howard attended a Quaker grammar school in [[Burford]], Oxfordshire where the headteacher was renowned for his flogging of slow-to-learn pupils.<ref>{{cite ODNB|chapter=Howard, Luke (1772–1864), manufacturing chemist and meteorologist |title=The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|language=en|doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/13928|year=2004}}</ref> In 1796 Howard married. He and his wife had two sons, Robert Howard and [[John Eliot Howard]], who were ultimately to take over their father's chemical manufacturing business, [[Howards and Sons]]. Their daughter Elizabeth married [[John Hodgkin (barrister)|John Hodgkin]], a [[barrister]].

Although a Quaker, he quit the [[Quakers|Society]] in 1825 after a dispute concerning apocryphal texts. A larger rift in the Society, the members being known as Beaconites being followers of [[Isaac Crewdson]]'s ''A Beacon to the Society of Friends'', led to Howard's final resignation from the [[Quakers|Society]] in 1836. Howard was subsequently baptized into the [[Plymouth Brethren]] in 1837 by Crewdson.

Howard died on 21 March 1864 at 7 Bruce Grove, [[Tottenham]] and is buried at [[Winchmore Hill]] Quaker Meeting House in [[London Borough of Enfield|Enfield]], north London.