Harold Howitt

Sir Harold Gibson Howitt, GBE, DSO, MC, FCA, JP, DL (5 October 1886 – 30 November 1969) was an English accountant who had, during the First World War, a distinguished military career and who undertook a long series of important public service commissions. Notable among these was his report on the reorganisation of the British pig industry.[1]

Air Council in session WWII IWM CH 966

Howitt was born in Nottingham, the son of Arthur Gibson Howitt. He was educated at Uppingham School.[2]

Selected publications
  • Development of pig production in the United Kingdom: report of the Advisory Committee on Development of Pig Production in the United Kingdom, HMSO, 1955
gollark: Possibly, depends what it is, I have lots of free time now and can program python a bit.
gollark: I really wonder who goes around *making* these things.
gollark: This is an actual regex in a Markdown parsing thing I'm trying to use:```^(?:(\*(?=[`\]!"#$%&'()+\-./:;<=>?@\[^_{|}~]))|\*)(?![\*\s])((?:(?:(?!\[.*?\]|`.*?`|<.*?>)(?:[^\*]|[\\s]\*)|\[.*?\]|`.*?`|<.*?>)|(?:(?:(?!\[.*?\]|`.*?`|<.*?>)(?:[^\*]|[\\s]\*)|\[.*?\]|`.*?`|<.*?>)*?(?<!\)\*){2})*?)(?:(?<![`\s\]!"#$%&'()+\-./:;<=>?@\[^_{|}~])\*(?!\*)|(?<=[`\]!"#$%&'()+\-./:;<=>?@\[^_{|}~])\*(?!\*)(?:(?=[`\s\]!"#$%&'()+\-./:;<=>?@\[^_{|}~]|$)))|^_([^\s_])_(?!_)|^_([^\s_<][\s\S]*?[^\s_])_(?!_|[^\s,!"#$%&'()+\-./:;<=>?@\[^_{|}~])|^_([^\s_<][\s\S]*?[^\s])_(?!_|[^\s,!"#$%&'()+\-./:;<=>?@\[^_{|}~])```(it's generated from a slightly less insane one with`punctuation` in place of the big mess of punctuation characters, but *still*)
gollark: You could probably procedurally generate a few of the parameters for it. I can't help much though, I just remembered that these were a thing for drawing curves which existed.
gollark: You might be interested in this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve

References
  1. Taplin, Walter (23 September 2004). "Howitt, Sir Harold Gibson (1886–1969), accountant". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001 (inactive 2020-05-24). Retrieved 6 April 2019.
  2. "Obituary: Sir Harold Howitt – Distinguished accountant who sat on many important tribunals". The Times. The Times Digital Archive. 2 December 1969. p. 12.


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