The Dictionary of Australasian Biography/Howard, Rev. Charles B.
Howard, Rev. Charles B., M.A., first Colonial Chaplain of South Australia, was appointed to that post by the Imperial Government, and arrived in the colony with Captain Hindmarsh, the first Governor, in the Buffalo, on Dec. 28th, 1836. Officiating in the first instance in a tent, and subsequently in a wooden structure sent out from England by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, Mr. Howard ultimately commenced the erection of Trinity Church, Adelaide, becoming involved thereby in pecuniary difficulties which embittered his last days. This devoted pioneer of the Church of England in South Australia died in 1843, at the early age of thirty-three. His widow married in 1845 the Very Rev. James Farrell, first Dean of Adelaide (q.v.).