Wilbert Francis Howard

Wilbert Francis Howard, (30 December 1880 – 10 July 1952) was an English Methodist theologian, biblical scholar and clergyman.

Born in Gloucester on 30 December 1880, Howard came from a Methodist family. He attended King Edward's School, Birmingham, and the University of Manchester. He was a lay pastor in Tyneside for a year and then worked at Didsbury College as assistant to the president. In 1919, he was appointed New Testament tutor at Handsworth College, where he remained until retiring in 1951; He was also president of the Methodist Conference in 1944 and, in a brief acting capacity, in 1946. and was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1949. He died on 10 July 1952.