Portrait of William Howitt, c. 1863, by Ernest Edwards
Born
(1792-12-18)18 December 1792[1]
Heanor, Derbyshire, England[1]
Died
3 March 1879(1879-03-03) (aged 86)
Rome, Kingdom of Italy
Education
Friends public school at Ackworth
Occupation
Writer
Spouse
Mary Botham
Children
4, including Anna and Alfred
William Howitt (18 December 1792 – 3 March 1879), was a prolific English writer on history and other subjects. Howitt Primary Community School in Heanor, Derbyshire, is named after him and his wife.
^ abDictionary of National Biography,1885–1900, Volume 28, William Howitt, now in the public domain.
WilliamHowitt (18 December 1792 – 3 March 1879), was a prolific English writer on history and other subjects. Howitt Primary Community School in Heanor...
Andersen. Some of her works were written in conjunction with her husband, WilliamHowitt. Many, in verse and prose, were intended for young people. Mary Botham...
Alfred WilliamHowitt CMG, (17 April 1830 – 7 March 1908), also known by author abbreviation A.W. Howitt, was an Australian anthropologist, explorer and...
WilliamHowitt (1830–1908), Australian anthropologist and naturalist Anna Mary Howitt (1824–1884), English painter, writer and feminist Bobby Howitt (1925–2005)...
with her. Anna Mary Howitt was born in Nottingham as the eldest surviving child of the Quaker writers and publishers WilliamHowitt (1792–1879) and Mary...
The Wiradjuri were organised into bands. Norman Tindale quotes Alfred WilliamHowitt as mentioning several of these local groups of the tribe: Narrandera...
actually had a religious meaning, and the Australian anthropologist Alfred WilliamHowitt rejects the idea that the eaten were human sacrifices as "absolutely...
Roberts, & Green. p. 6. OCLC 6352154. Ennemoser, Joseph; Mary Botham Howitt; WilliamHowitt (2002) [1854]. History of Magic, Part 1. Kessinger Publishing [Henry...
"sizars were sons of poor parents, frequently the clergy". According to WilliamHowitt, writing in 1847 with reference to Oliver Goldsmith: Trinity College...
Wurundjeri people. According to the early Australian ethnographer Alfred WilliamHowitt, the name Wurundjeri, in his transcription Urunjeri, refers to a species...
Alfred Howitt may refer to: Alfred WilliamHowitt (1830–1908), Australian anthropologist and naturalist Alfred Bakewell Howitt (1879–1954), English Conservative...
was inducted from its use in the works of J. F. McLennan by Alfred WilliamHowitt and Lorimer Fison in the mid-1880s to describe a geographically or locally...
Plot. William Gregg (1890–1969), born and died in Heanor, was awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery in 1918. The Howitt brothers: WilliamHowitt (1792–1879)...
Travellers House) "The Holly-tree Inn" (1855) (with Wilkie Collins, WilliamHowitt, Harriet Parr and Adelaide Procter) "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" (1856)...
pathway for his spirit to return to the sky world. According to Alfred WilliamHowitt these carved trees served both as transit points to allow cultural heroes...
which was published in Blackwood's Magazine in January 1837. In 1840 WilliamHowitt published Visits to Remarkable Places containing a contribution entitled...
Mount Howitt, also known as Toot-buck-nulluck in the Gunai language, is a mountain in Victoria, Australia, named for Alfred WilliamHowitt. Located in...
rescued in September by Alfred WilliamHowitt, who buried Burke and Wills before returning to Melbourne. In 1862, Howitt returned to Cooper Creek and disinterred...
Its sub-specific epithet commemorates geologist and magistrate Alfred WilliamHowitt, who collected three specimens from the upper reaches of the Buchan...
information on Kulin traditions and kinship to anthropologist Alfred WilliamHowitt. From the 1880s until his death Barak painted and drew, using a combination...
permanent display on a wall of fame in Sale. The bronzes featured Alfred WilliamHowitt, Mary Grant Bruce, Ada Crossley, Allan McLean, Angus McMillan and Nehemiah...
actually had a religious meaning, and the Australian anthropologist Alfred WilliamHowitt rejects the idea that the eaten were human sacrifices as "absolutely...
managed station affairs in the frequent absences of William and his wife. Alfred WilliamHowitt, an Australian anthropologist, explorer and naturalist...
John Frederick (1864), John Cassell's Illustrated history of England – WilliamHowitt, John Cassell, archived from the original on 19 September 2023, retrieved...
Australian Aboriginal tribe of Gippsland, Victoria. According to Alfred WilliamHowitt, the Bidawal were composed of "refugees from tribes". The Bidawal language...
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