found: BL's copy of Hobbes, Thomas. Leviathan, or The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill, 1651:armorial book-plate on front paste-down (Edward Howes, Morningthorpe Manor)
found: Debrett's illustrated House of Commons and the judicial bench, 1870:p. 150 (E. Howes, South Northfolk; Edward Howes; born 7 July 1813; educated at St. Paul's School and Trinity College Cambridge; graduated B.A. 1835; M.A. 1838; elected a fellow of his coll. 1836; called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn June 1839 but he doesn't practise; Deputy Lieutenant and Justice of the Peace of Norfolk, chairman of Quarter Sessions for Norfolk 1848 and a Church Estates' Commissioner 1866) p. 151 (he sat for East Norfolk from May 1859 till Nov. 1868 when he was elected for the new division of South Norfolk; seat: Morningthorpe Manor, Long-Stratton, Norfolk)
found: Venn, J.A. Alumni Cantabrigienses. Part II, 1947:v. 3, p. 465 (Howes, Edward; admitted pensioner at Trinity, July 10, 1830; matriculated Michaelmas 1831; B.A. 1835; M.A. 1838; Fellow 1836; admitted at Lincoln's Inn Feb. 5 1835; called to the bar, June 7, 1839; equity draftsman and conveyancer; of Morningthorpe, Norfolk; Justice of the Peace and Deputy Lieutenant; Chairman, Quarter Sessions, 1848; chancellor of the Diocese of Norwich; M.P. for Norfolk (Eastern Division) 1859-1868 and for the Northern Division 1868-1871; Commissioner for church estates; died 26 March 1871 at Morningthorpe)