Charles Augustus Howell [SEP] date of birth
Charles Augustus Howell
Charles Augustus Howell (10 March 1840 – 21 April 1890) was an art dealer and alleged blackmailer who is best known for persuading the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti to dig up the poems he buried with his wife Elizabeth Siddal. His reputation as a blackmailer inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story, "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton".
Life.
Howell was born in Porto, Portugal to an English father, Alfred William Hervey Howell, and a Portuguese mother. He claimed to have
Charles Howell
Charles Howell may refer to:
- Charles Howell (British politician) (1905–1974), British Labour Party politician
- Charles Augustus Howell (1840–1890), art dealer and alleged blackmailer
- Charles Henry Howell (1824–1905), architect of lunatic asylums in England
- Charles R. Howell (1904–1973), American Democratic Party politician
- Charles Howell III (born 1979), American golfer
- Charles Andrew Howell III (born 1930), American businessman and politician
- Charles Gough Howell (