Miles Howell
Miles Howell (9 September 1893 – 23 February 1976) was an English first-class cricketer active 1913–39 who played for Surrey (awarded county cap 1920) and Oxford University playing in the Varsity matches in 1914 and 1919. In the latter he scored a career best 170 as he skippered his side to a 45 run win.[1]
Howell was born in Thames Ditton to Reginald Howell (1856-1912), the managing director of Stevenson & Howell, manufacturing chemists, and Mary, the second daughter of Sir George Nares, who had married in 1882.[2] He attended Repton School from 1907-1913[3] and Oriel College, Oxford University, where he captained the Oxford University A.F.C. as well as the Cricket team.[4] On the 2nd of December 1926, at Holy Trinity Church, Sloane Square, he married Pamela Winifred Humm (1903-1992), the sister of actress Benita Hume.[5] They had a son, John, named after Howells brother, who had fallen in France in 1915,[6] and divorced in 1940.[7] In September 1945, he married Evelyn Cecilia Force, née Matthews.[8] He died in Lychwood, Worplesdon Hill, Surrey.[9]
Further Reading
[edit source]Bailey, Philip. Who’s who of Cricketers. Newnes Books: Feltham 1984, p. 511.
The Wisden book of obituaries: obituaries from the Wisden cricketers’ almanack, Queen Anne Press: London 1986, p. 468.
References
[edit source]- ↑ "Oxford University v Cambridge University". 27 September 2023.
- ↑ St James’s Gazette, 20 September 1882, p. 14.
- ↑ Messiter, Minna. Repton School register: supplement to 1910, London, 1922, p. 266.
- ↑ „Football Gossip and Sporting.“ Derbyshire Advertiser and Journal, 3 January 1920, p. 10.
- ↑ Daily Mirror, 3 December 1926, p. 12.
- ↑ Duckworth, Leslie. S. F. Barnes: Master Bowler. London 1968, p. 24.
- ↑ Surrey Advertiser, 6 April 1940, p. 2.
- ↑ "Index entry". FreeBMD. ONS. Retrieved 24 July 2026., West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser; 19 May 1960, p. 13.
- ↑ Miles Howell at CricketArchive
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