Lee Bolton Monier-Williams

Education and Ecclesiastical, Charities and Not for Profit

Howard is Senior Partner and Head of Education and Ecclesiastical.

Howard trained at Finn & Busby; qualified 1999; assistant solicitor Stones 1999; assistant solicitor Boodle Hatfield 2001; assistant solicitor Lee Bolton & Lee 2001; partner 2004; partner LBMW 2008; senior partner LBMW 2020.

Howard's experience to date includes:

• Registrar to the Dioceses of Ely, Guildford and Liverpool and is the Registrar of the Faculty Office of the Archbishop of Canterbury and is Deputy Registrar of the Diocese of Lincoln. • Solicitor to many charitable companies, Maintained schools, Academies, Independent schools and a number of Church of England Diocesan Boards of Finance and Education. • Advises the Church of England Education Office, the Whitgift Foundation and a number of Multi- Academy trusts. • Member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and is an executor and trustee of numerous estates / trusts and has particular interest in cross-border succession issues with France. He was the solicitor and executor in the following High Court Case Dellar v Zivy and others [2007] EWHC 2266 (Ch), [2007] All ER (D) 121 (Oct). • Secretary to the Bletchingdon Community Foundation and chair of The Bletchington Charity. • Chair of The St Mary Magdalen Oxford Restoration and Development Trust. • Member of the Ecclesiastical Law Society and the Charity Law Association and Chair of the Ecclesiastical Law Association. • Youth Manager of the Oxford and Bletchington NonDescripts cricket club .

Charity Law Association; secretary of the Ecclesiastical Law Society; Ecclesiastical Law Association; City of Westminster and Holborn Law Society; MSI; Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners.

St Edward’s School, Cheltenham; University of Bristol (1993 BA Hons; 1994 MA); University of the West of England (1995 diploma in law with merit; 1996 LPC).

Former PCC member of St Mary Magdalen Church, Oxford, The Travellers Club.