Home >> Society >> Religion and Spirituality >> Christianity >> Denominations >> Catholicism >> Saints >> W >> Blessed William Howard William Howard (1793 – 1834) was an American mechanical engineer who was one of the number one to act for the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Whilst a railroad built its number 1 cars using friction bearings first developed by Ross Winans, Howard made his have project & patented it in November 2 1828. Ven. William Howard Biography of the Viscount Stafford, who headed the list of Catholic lords pursued by Titus Oates in the so-called Popish Plot. Imprisoned in the Tower and tried before the House of Lords, Stafford was executed in 1680. Blessed William Howard Brief note on the martyr, beatified in 1929. William Howard, 1st Viscount Stafford (1614-1680), Implicated in Popish Plot Description of portrait held by the National Portrait Gallery, London. William Howard, Viscount Stafford Short biography of the last victim of the hysteria over the "Popish Plot."
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