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Name: HOWITT, Robert Hallewell
Nee: son of Charles Alfred Howitt
Birth Date: 28 Nov 1888 Leeds
Death Date: 18 Mar 1960 Knaresborough
First Date: 1926
Profession: Instructor, African, Educ. Dept in 1939, appointed 1927. Originally Carpentry Instructor 1926. Principal, Government African School, Tambach in 1939
Area: Tambach
Married: 1. In Leeds 1914 Alice M. Pearson b. 18 Mar 1893 Bradford; 2. In 1937 Mabel Emma Upsill b. 17 Aug 1899 Cowes, Isle of Wight, d. 12 May 1972 Harrogate, West Riding, Yorks. (see her entry)
Children: Frank (1922 Goole, Yorks.-12 Apr 2004 Newark, Lincs.)
Book Reference: Staff 39
War Service: Royal Navy, RAF
General Information:
Gazette - 27/10/1926 - Arrived on 1st Appointment - Carpentry Instructor, Education - R.A. Howitt
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Uasin Gishu Voters Roll
1939 England and Wales Register living in Whitley Bay, widowed [so perhaps the marriage to Mabel took place after 1939?]