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Harold Howitt

Harold Howitt

English accountant

Sir Harold Gibson Howitt, GBE, DSO, MC, FCA, JP, DL (5 October 1886 – 30 November 1969) was an English accountant who had a distinguished military career during the First World War and who undertook a long series of important public service commissions. Notable among these was his report on the reorganisation of the British pig industry.[1]

Air Council in session WWII IWM CH 966

Howitt was born in Nottingham, the son of Arthur Gibson Howitt. He was educated at Uppingham School.[2]

Selected publications

  • Development of pig production in the United Kingdom: report of the Advisory Committee on Development of Pig Production in the United Kingdom, HMSO, 1955

References

  1. [1]
    Taplin, Walter (23 September 2004). "Howitt, Sir Harold Gibson (1886–1969), accountant". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/34028. Retrieved 6 April 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. [2]
    "Obituary: Sir Harold Howitt – Distinguished accountant who sat on many important tribunals". The Times. 2 December 1969. p. 12.
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