William Howitt
1792–1879
Writer, traveller, and pharmacist. Prolific author; published on a wide variety of subjects, including science, country life, foreign travel, history, and the supernatural. Lived in Germany, 1840–3; travelled in Australia, 1852–4; settled in Rome, 1870.
Sources
DNB
Modern English biography.
Bibliography
DNB: Dictionary of national biography. Edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee. 63 vols. and 2 supplements (6 vols.). London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1912. Dictionary of national biography 1912–90. Edited by H. W. C. Davis et al. 9 vols. London: Oxford University Press. 1927–96.
Modern English biography: Modern English biography, containing many thousand concise memoirs of persons who have died since the year 1850. By Frederick Boase. 3 vols. and supplement (3 vols.). Truro, Cornwall: the author. 1892–1921.
