F. D. (Frederick Douglas) How

Frederick Douglas How (1853–1936), often published as F. D. How, was an English writer and editor. Public-domain editions of his work show him as the author of Oxford and as the editor of Lighter Moments from the Notebook of Bishop Walsham How and Bishop Walsham How: A Memoir.

In the preface to Lighter Moments, he explains that Bishop Walsham How was his father and that he gathered the book from his father's notes after his death. That gives his writing a personal, affectionate quality: he was not only recording church history, but also preserving family memory.

The surviving sources available here confirm his published work clearly, but they offer only limited biographical detail beyond his dates and his connection to Bishop Walsham How. Even so, his books suggest a writer interested in character, reminiscence, and the cultural life of Oxford and the Church of England.