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William Gough Howell DFC

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(1922 – 29 November 1974) was a British architect, the leading force in the firm of Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis, and chair of the architecture department at

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from 1973 until his death the following year in a road accident. He was the son of

Charles Gough Howell Charles Gough Howell (1894 – 12 September 1942) was a Welsh lawyer and British colonial official, who served as Attorney General of Fiji from 1931 to 1933, and as Attorney-General of Singapore from 1936 to 1942. Early life and family backg ...

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from 1936 to 1942, and his Australian wife, Sidney Gretchen Innes-Noad. He was educated at

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, before joining the

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in 1939. After the war, he studied architecture at

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. Howell designed the

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(also known as the Mathematics Research Centre houses), a set of five houses and two flats, built for academics attending mathematical conferences at the

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, built 1968 to 1969. They are now Grade II* listed buildings. Howell died in a car accident on 29 November 1974, near

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, Bedfordshire. In 1951, Howell married fellow architect Gillian Margaret "Jill" Howell, nee Sarson (1927–2000).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Howell, William 1922 births 1974 deaths 20th-century British architects Recipients of the Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom) Alumni of the Architectural Association School of Architecture Associates of the Royal Academy Royal Air Force personnel of World War II Road incident deaths in England Alumni of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge