Going round the HOWSEs - August 2017

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Going round the HOWSEs - August 2017

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Hello everyone. Although I have spent a clear majority of days in August sailing on my beloved Norfolk Broads, the team has been busy on your behalf. Very quick update again this month: we added almost 800 people this month, taking us just over 124,000 people in total.

"America's handsomest man"
Check out Hermon Reed Howes wikipedia article, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed_Howes. Reed Howes was active in the early days iof Hollywood and had worked as a clothing model which then got him some roles on camera. "A 1924 advertisement by film company FBO capitalizing on Howes' ... (modelling) ... popularity has Howes: "Acknowledged and acclaimed America's handsomest man". Quite an accolade. Sad to say, it doesn't look like he was able to capialize in it

"Lloyd George knew my father"
This is the name of a silly British schoolboy tune from many years ago. In a similar vein, many of the subjects of our study were well-known to other, even more well-known people. Thanks to correspondent Richard Hows for pointing out that his relative John William Stanhope Hows was a fairly close acquaintaince of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the American poet. Indeed, if you read some of Longfellow's letters on this page:
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h1c ... ow&f=false
you will see that Longfellow thought highly of Hows, the British-born son of a butcher who became a renowned university professor in his adopted land! Does anyone else have a similar story to tell?

Footnote on Indian history
Earlier in the year, we pointed out a Howes connection to Canada's 150th birthday. This month it was India's 70th and, yes, there is a Howes connection here too. The partition in 1947 was a traumatic one for millions of Indian people, but for Peter Howes, a British military man cum civil servant and aide-de-camp to Lord Mountbatten, the final viceroy of India, it presented problems in how to divide up public assets. Scrupuloulsy fair to both sides, his solution to the one odd item was to take it home and mount it on his mantelpiece!
http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp ... 487860.ece

Howes of Boston?
We spotted these fireplace tools for sale on CraigsList in California. They were labelled "Howes of Boston"
https://sacramento.craigslist.org/atq/6264230879.html
Does anyone know who made them?

Answer to puzzle
i77311 - Frank Howes, born 1865
To find him, click on Advanced search on any page of the website. Type frank into the firstname box and howes into the lastname box. Then click on "click to display" under "Other Events". Go down to occupation and type in "tailo" into the Fact box & hit the enter key. The search facility returns just two names. It is clear that only one of them sent to Australia. So that is our man.

Have a good September, everyone.
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I should add that the puzzle was sent by email and involved finding the record for Frank Howes, tailor of Sydney, Australia in 1899.
Paul
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