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.
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actually had a religious meaning, and the Australian anthropologist Alfred WilliamHowitt rejects the idea that the eaten were human sacrifices as "absolutely...
The Wiradjuri were organised into bands. Norman Tindale quotes Alfred WilliamHowitt as mentioning several of these local groups of the tribe: Narrandera...
Roberts, & Green. p. 6. OCLC 6352154. Ennemoser, Joseph; Mary Botham Howitt; WilliamHowitt (2002) [1854]. History of Magic, Part 1. Kessinger Publishing [Henry...
Wurundjeri people. According to the early Australian ethnographer Alfred WilliamHowitt, the name Wurundjeri, in his transcription Urunjeri, refers to a species...
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...
Melbourne on 26 June 1861 under the leadership of Alfred WilliamHowitt. At the Loddon River, Howitt met Brahe, who was returning from Cooper Creek. As Brahe...
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"sizars were sons of poor parents, frequently the clergy". According to WilliamHowitt, writing in 1847 with reference to Oliver Goldsmith: Trinity College...
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...
information on Kulin traditions and kinship to anthropologist Alfred WilliamHowitt. From the 1880s until his death Barak painted and drew, using a combination...
managed station affairs in the frequent absences of William and his wife. Alfred WilliamHowitt, an Australian anthropologist, explorer and naturalist...
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Lancaster. 2 miles S. of Bentham." In 1840 The Rural Life of England by WilliamHowitt, Thomas Bewick and Samuel Williams The Great Stone is mentioned in chapter...
rescued in September by Alfred WilliamHowitt, who buried Burke and Wills before returning to Melbourne. In 1862, Howitt returned to Cooper Creek and disinterred...
Sydney on 8 October 1852. Dexter was at Bendigo in August 1853, where WilliamHowitt heard him advocating republican doctrines at a meeting of diggers. His...
John Frederick (1864), John Cassell's Illustrated history of England – WilliamHowitt, John Cassell, archived from the original on 19 September 2023, retrieved...
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