Conservative Member of Parliament for Salford South
Henry Hoyle Howorth took which position from Jul 1892 to Sep 1900?
Henry Hoyle Howorth Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth ( 1 July 1842 – 15 July 1923 ) was a British Conservative politician , barrister and amateur historian and geologist . Career . He was born in Lisbon , Portugal , the son of Henry Howorth , a merchant in that city . He was educated at Rossall School before studying law . He was called to the bar by the Inner Temple in 1867 , and practised on the Northern Circuit . He was also the maternal great uncle of anthropologist Sir Edmund Ronald Leach . He was a Unionist in politics , and was elected as Conservative Member of Parliament for Salford South in 1886 . He was re-elected in 1892 and 1895 before retiring from the Commons at the 1900 general election . Apart from the law and politics , Howorth was deeply interested in archaeology , history , numismatics and ethnography . He was a prolific writer , contributing articles to a number of journals . In 1892 he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Indian Empire in recognition of his works on the history and ethnography of Asia . In 1893 he was made a Fellow of the Royal Society , against considerable opposition as he lacked any formal scientific education . He subsequently became Honorary Librarian of Chethams College , Manchester , and a Trustee of the British Museum . He was also a Member of the Chetham Society , serving as a Member of Council from 1877 until 1900 . He was also a Member of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society and a Freemason . Howorth was a controversialist , frequently airing his opinions on the letters page of The Times , sometimes under the pseudonym A Manchester Conservative . He married Katherine Brierley in 1869 and they had three sons , one of whom was Sir Rupert Howorth . His wife predeceased him in 1921 . Sir Henry Howorth died in July 1923 aged 81 , and was buried in Putney Vale Cemetery . Catastrophism . Howorth rejected the uniformitarianism of James Hutton and Charles Lyell . He attacked the ice age theory in his book The Mammoth and the Flood ( 1887 ) . He defended a form of neo-diluvialism , that catastrophic floods had devastated large areas of the earth . He did not believe in a global flood and considered the biblical deluge just one of many flood myths to support his theory . He used geological evidence to support his theory in The Glacial Nightmare and the Flood ( 1893 ) . In 1905 , he wrote another book Ice or Water that attempted to refute the glacial theory in detail . Professional geologists were not convinced by his theory . Works . The books and journals he authored summarise his vast areas of interest : On Mongolia : - H.H . Howorth ( 霍渥斯 ) , History of the Mongols ( in three-volumes , 1876–88 ) : - History of the Mongols : The Mongols proper and the Kalmuks : Part I - History of the Mongols , from the 9th to the 19th Century : Part I - H.H . Howorth , History of Chinghis Khan and his Ancestors . - H.H . Howorth , The Spread of the Slaves , Part III : The Northern Serbs or Sorabians and the Obodoiti , The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland , 9 ( 1880 ) , pp . 181–232 . On the English Church : - H.H . Howorth , The History of the Church in England to the Eighth Century ( in three volumes , 1912–17 ) : - Saint Gregory the Great ( 1912 ) ; - Saint Augustine of Canterbury ( 1913 ) ; and - The Golden Days of the Early English Church ( 1917 ) . In his geological works , he attacked the theories of Charles Lyell , discounting the existence of Ice Ages in favour of great floods : - H.H . Howorth , The Mammoth and the Flood ( 1887 ) ; - H.H . Howorth , ( 1893 ) ; and - H.H . Howorth , Ice or Water ? ( 1905 ) . External links . - Chetham Society