howitt] 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
301 
Howitt (Samuel), 1765 (?)-1822 
Samuel Howitt, a member of an old Notts Quaker family, 
was born about 1765, and was in early life in independent 
circumstances, residing at Cbigwell, Essex, and devoting 
himself to field sports. Financial troubles, however, com- 
pelled him to take up painting and etching as a means of 
livelihood. He was for a time a drawing- master at Ealing, 
and in 1785 and 1793 exhibited landscapes and hunting 
scenes at the Royal Academy. He was also a skilful etcher. 
He married a sister of Rowlandson, whose work Howitt’s is 
thought to closely resemble. He died in Somers Town in 
1822. 
1812. The | British Sportsman | by | Samuel Howitt, | containing | 
Seventy Plates. | — | A new Edition. | 1812. | London : | Pub- 
lished and sold by Edward Orme, Printseller, &c. to the King | 
Bond Street, corner of Brook Street. 
Collation — 1 vol. 4to, title, with col. front, and 71 col. plates 
without text. Also uncoloured. Includes 4 of Hawking, also 
others of pheasant, grouse, and snipe shooting, etc. 
1st edit. 1800. Not seen. 
1824. British Preserve. | Drawn and etched | by | S. Howitt. . . . London : 
1824. 
Collation — 1 vol. 4to, vignette on title, and 36 plates. 
These etchings include Wild Swans, Geese, Ducks, Heron, 
Bittern, Woodcock, Snipe, Curlew, Plovers, Bustard, Grouse, 
etc. 
/ 
Idem. Another edition, with slightly different title-page. 
n.d. [1829.] 
Collation— 1 vol. imp. 4to or folio, pp. 71, 43 plates and 
vignette on title. 
Howitt (William), 1792-1879 
This well-known and prolific writer and editor was born 
at Heanor, Derbyshire, December 18, 1792, and educated at 
the Friends’ Public School at Ackworth, Yorkshire, and 
afterwards at Tamworth. He commenced his literary career 
at the age of thirteen, when his “ Address to Spring ” was 
inserted in the Monthly Magazine. In 1823, two years after 
his marriage, he set up business in Nottingham as a chemist 
