HOWICK, a parish in the southern division of BAMBROUGH ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 5 miles (N. E. by E.) from Alnwick, containing 234 inhabitants. The living is a rectory, annexed to the archdeaconry of Northumberland, diocese of Durham, rated in the king's books at £36. 13. 4., and in the patronage of the Bishop of Durham. The church is dedicated to St. Mary. A free school, was founded and built by the first Sir Henry Grey, Bart., who endowed it with £10 per annum charged on the Howick estate, with a house and garden for the master: the endowment was augmented by Mrs. Magdalen Grey, of Durham, with a rent-charge of £ 13. The school-room has been recently rebuilt, and the master receives £5 per annum from Earl Grey, in addition to the previous endowment. In the park of Howick hall, the seat of Earl Grey, is a fine trout stream, crossed by a bridge of ashlar work: on the eastern side are the remains of a Roman encampment, where, more than half a century ago, spears, swords, coins, gold rings linked together in the form of a gorget, were discovered. In the vicinity were also found several large urns and some human bones, four feet beneath the surface of the earth. Howick confers the inferior title of viscount upon the family of Grey.