(Richard) Howel Brown was Provost of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow[1] from 1890 until 1904.
He was born in 1856 and educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge. He was ordained in 1884 and served after a curacy at St Giles in the Fields was Vicar of Holy Trinity, Lincoln's Inn Fields until his cathedral appointment.
Later he held incumbencies in Southgate and Enfield.[2]
He died on 14 May 1928.[3]