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Edgar Allan Howes

Male 1888 - Abt 1969  (81 years)


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  • Name Edgar Allan Howes  [1, 2
    Reverend Frederick William Golden Howes Family
    Reverend Frederick William Golden Howes Family
    Richmond Surrey
    Birth Abt 1887  East Dereham, Norfolk Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4
    Birth 11 Jan 1887  [2
    Birth 10 Jan 1888  [5
    Born 11 Jan 1888  East Dereham, Norfolk Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Gender Male 
    Birth Abt Feb 1888  Mitford RD, Norfolk Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    Residence 5 Apr 1891  9 High Street, East Dereham, Norfolk Find all individuals with events at this location  [3
    Residence 31 Mar 1901  29 Norwich Road, East Dereham, Norfolk Find all individuals with events at this location  [8
    Occupation 2 Apr 1911  [4
    Art Student - sculptor 
    Residence 2 Apr 1911  4 Clarence Road, Kew Gardens, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [4
    Residence 9 Sep 1925  28 St Mary's Grove, Richmond, Surrey Find all individuals with events at this location  [9
    Occupation 29 Sep 1939  [5
    Sculptor 
    Residence 29 Sep 1939  69 Sheen Park, Richmond, Surrey Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Died Abt Nov 1969  Cambridge RD, Cambridgeshire Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Death 11 Dec 1969  [6
    Death 11 Dec 1969  Cambridge RD, Cambridgeshire Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Honour Fellow of the Royal Society of British Sculptors  [6
    Name Alan Edgar Howes  [6
    Name Alan Howes  [6
    Name Allan Howes  [10
    Name E Howes  [9
    Name Edgar A Howes  [5, 10
    Name Edgar Alan Howes  [4
    Residence 19 St Peter's Square, Chiswick, London Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Dates not known but, thanks to correspondent Kate McRae, recent sales partculars of the house disclose that he lived there during the 20th century
    Notes 
    • From sculpture.gla.ac.uk:
      Howes studied at the Royal Academy Schools, where he won the Landseer scholarship, and then at the Slade School of Art. From the early 1920s Howes exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and in smaller group shows in London galleries. A bronze group of a 'Madonna of the Lily' was purchased from the Royal Academy in 1926 by the Queen. Howes is credited with making a relief of a mother with two children for the facade of the Bermondsey Health Centre in 1937 (Grange Road, London SE1). In the early 1940s Howes created a sculptured glass memorial window in memory of Herman and Marguerite Kleinwort for their seven daughters, it was installed at St Peter's, Boughton Monchelsea, Kent (installed c.1942-44)

      From RichmondHistory.org.uk
      For public authorities works of art can be embarrassing gifts. Too often they attract graffiti and derision rather than admiration. None more so than Richmond’s notorious ‘Bulbous Betty’. This statue by Alan Howes now presides over the calm waters of a pool at the top of the Terrace Gardens, eliciting little more then polite puzzlement among passing pedestrians – neatly caught in this painting by Ron Berryman. She seems wonderfully oblivious of the extraordinary furore she provoked on her arrival there in 1952.

      The setting is appropriate, as her true title is ‘Aphrodite’, echoing perhaps Botticelli’s painting of her birth off the coast of Cyprus. The style, however, is that of the modernist idiom of the 1950s, and it excited outrage among some of the councillors and even more of the citizens of Richmond. Controversy raged in the letters columns of the Richmond and Twickenham Times, ‘Bulbous Betty’ being only one of a number of derisory nicknames suggested in a heated correspondence that the editor brought to a close after no fewer than 84 letters. She was described as being an insult to human form, and schoolchildren were forbidden to look at her. One letter declared the ‘the sculpture is as disturbing to gentlemen, as Father Thames is to maidens’. Ron Berryman’s article, ‘The Disgracing of Aphrodite’, wittily describes how she survived what eventually became a matter for national debate.

      Also a brief bio in Artists' Biography at issuu.com and a full description of "Bulbous Betty" at
      http://www.brentforddockresidents.co.uk/sculptures/aphrodite.php

      Note too that several of Edgar's works (mainly photos of his scupltures) are available online at museums.vam.ac.uk, under the name Allan Edgar Howes.
    Person ID I7032  ONS
    Last Modified 11 Apr 2022 

    Father Robert William Howes,   b. Abt May 1855, Cley next the Sea, Norfolk Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt Nov 1921, Richmond RD, Surrey Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 66 years) 
    Mother Emily Howlett,   b. 23 Jun 1859, North Walsham, Norfolk Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt Nov 1942, Outer Norwich RD, Norfolk Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 83 years) 
    Married Abt May 1881  Hackney RD, London Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Married 4 Jun 1881  St Peter, Hackney, London Find all individuals with events at this location  [11
    • Witness Role: Witness Name: James Kistruck
    Family ID F7298  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Amy Seymour Soole,   b. 25 Oct 1886, Richmond RD, Surrey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Abt Feb 1967, Newmarket RD, Cambridgeshire Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Married Abt May 1925  Richmond RD, Surrey Find all individuals with events at this location  [10
    Last Modified 22 Jun 2014 
    Family ID F25096  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt 1887 - East Dereham, Norfolk Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBorn - 11 Jan 1888 - East Dereham, Norfolk Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBirth - Abt Feb 1888 - Mitford RD, Norfolk Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 5 Apr 1891 - 9 High Street, East Dereham, Norfolk Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 31 Mar 1901 - 29 Norwich Road, East Dereham, Norfolk Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsResidence - 2 Apr 1911 - 4 Clarence Road, Kew Gardens, London Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarried - Abt May 1925 - Richmond RD, Surrey Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDied - Abt Nov 1969 - Cambridge RD, Cambridgeshire Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 11 Dec 1969 - Cambridge RD, Cambridgeshire Link to Google Earth
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  • Documents
    The Howes of 4 Clarence Road, Kew
    The Howes of 4 Clarence Road, Kew
    A household captured in the 1911 census reveals Kate McRae’s hidden family
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  • Sources 
    1. [S476] BMD register (England & Wales) - births - multiple sources.

    2. [S480] BMD register (England & Wales) - deaths - multiple sources.

    3. [S5] 1891 Census - England & Wales.

    4. [S156] 1911 Census - England & Wales.

    5. [S1956] 1939 Register, findmypast.com, ancestry.com.

    6. [S1582] Mapping of Sculpture, (sculpture.gla.ac.uk).

    7. [S35] Freebmd.

    8. [S6] 1901 Census - England & Wales.

    9. [S1626] Migration record - mother.

    10. [S475] BMD register (England & Wales) - marriages - multiple sources.

    11. [S64] Parish Register - marriages.