Brian Howard

Brian Howard (Brian Christian de Claiborne Howard, 1905–1958) was a poet and later a writer for the New Statesman.

Howard was born to American parents in Hascombe, Surrey, and brought up in London. He was educated at Eton College, where he was one of the Eton Arts Society group including Harold Acton and Oliver Messel. He entered Christ Church, Oxford in 1923, not without difficulty. He was prominent in the group later known as the Oxford Wits. He was one of the Hypocrites group that included Harold Acton, L P Hartley and Evelyn Waugh.