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ODNB (Article: 13956); AO (Foster); ACAD (Venn) (ID: HW647J); Calamy Revised
John Howe was born on 17 May 1630 at Loughborough. He was admitted sizar, aged seventeen, at Christ's College, Cambridge on 19 May 1647, and subsequently served as a bible clerk at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1648. Howe graduated B.A. from Oxford on 18 January 1650, and proceeded M.A. on 9 July 1652. He was elected Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford in 1652, and held the post for three years. From 1654, he was minister of Great Torrington, Devon; he was ejected from this post in 1662. Howe served as domestic chaplain to Oliver and Richard Cromwell. He fled to Utrecht in 1686, but returned to England the following year. Howe died on 2 April 1705, and was buried at All Hallows, Bread Street.