Edward Page Howard [also known as E. P. Howard] was born in Invercargill, New Zealand in 1863. He was articled to Frederick William Burwell (1846-1915) in Invercargill from 1881 to 1886 and remained with him for a further year. Shortly after, he moved to England and continued his training as an architect under Frank Thomas Baggallay (1855-1930) at the Atelier, 12 Heddon Street, London from 1887 to 1889.
Howard qualified as an architect in 1890 and was elected an Associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects (ARIBA) in 1891. He then worked for various architectural firms.
In 1906 he submitted an entry in a competition to design an extension to Birmingham Council House. His designs are illustrated in British Competitions in Architecture vol. 1, no. 10, September 1906 pp. 35-40.
Howard went back to New Zealand during World War One. After the war he returned to England and subsequently retired to Cranleigh in Surrey where he died on 8 May 1928
Directory of British Architects 1834-1914. Compiled by Antonia Brodie, et al. Volume 2: L-Z. London; New York: British Architectural Library, Royal Institute of British Architects/Continuum, 2001
'Obituary'. RIBA Journal vol. 36, 1929 p.212