David Arthur Russell Howell, Baron Howell of Guildford, PC, (born January 18, 1936) is a British Conservative politician, journalist, and economic consultant.
He was the self-proclaimed head of the Branch Davidians from 1988 until a raid by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and subsequent siege by the Federal Bureau of Investigation ended with the burning of Branch Davidian ranch, the Mount Carmel Center.
David Koresh was born in Houston, Texas to a 15-year-old single mother.
Howell allegedly had an affair with Lois Roden, the prophetess and leader of the sect who was then in her late sixties.
David, the youngest of the sons of Jesse, brings food each day to his brothers who are with Saul, and hears the Philistine champion, the giant Goliath, challenge the Israelites to send out their own champion to decide the outcome in single combat.
David is described as the author of the majority of the Psalms of the Bible - one of the most famous of which is Psalm 51, traditionally said to have been composed by David after Nathan upbraided him for his adultery with Bathsheba: "To the choirmaster.
In Judaism, David's reign represents the formation of a coherent Jewish kingdom with its political and religious capital in Jerusalem and the institution of a royal lineage that culminates in the Messianic Age.
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