Background
Howell was born in New York the son of Frederick Hunting Howell of Wall Street, New York and his wife Katherine Van Liew Howell.
Howell was born in New York the son of Frederick Hunting Howell of Wall Street, New York and his wife Katherine Van Liew Howell.
He was educated at the Military College in America and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, England.
In 1897 he rowed in the Cambridge boat in the Boat Race in the penultimate in a ten year series of wins by Oxford. He challenged in the Wingfield Sculls in 1897 but lost to Harry Blackstaffe. In 1900 he lost the Diamond Sculls to Edward Hemmerde, and the Wingfield Sculls to Blackstaffe.
Howell became a manufacturer of Tuxedo Park, New New York
