Background
Born in King"s Lynn, the son of Sir Ralph Howell Member of Parliament, he was educated at Gresham"s School, Holt and Street Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Member of the European Parliament politician
Born in King"s Lynn, the son of Sir Ralph Howell Member of Parliament, he was educated at Gresham"s School, Holt and Street Edmund Hall, Oxford.
Gresham’s School, Holt, Norfolk. St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, Bachelor of Arts Agriculture and Economics. Spoken languages: french.
After Oxford, Howell devoted much of his early career to the Conservative Party, first in its Research Department (1973–1975), and later as an Member of the European Parliament. Howell died with at least five other people when a Piper Seneca aircraft he was in crashed on a beach just short of Beira, the second largest city in Mozambique. He had been looking at agricultural business interests in South Africa and Mozambique. Conservative Research Department, 1973-1975
Member of the European Parliament (Conservative) for Norfolk, 1979-1994
Spokesman for the European Democrat Group on youth culture, education, information and sport, 1984-1986.
On agriculture, 1989-1992.
On fisheries, 1989-1994
Member and EDG spokesman, Regl Committee, 1992-1994
Vice-Chairman, European Parliament-Comecon Delegation, 1984
Chairman, Riceman Insurance Investments plc, 1995-1999
Trustee, Nuffield Russia Trust, since 1991.
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After losing his Norfolk constituency in the 1994 European election, he went into business as chairman of Riceman Insurance Investments PLC Always a pro-European, the rise of the Euro-sceptics in the Conservative Party led him to join the Liberal Democrats.
Generally on the liberal wing of the Party, he was a member of the Tory Reform Group. Member of Agricultural, Foreign Affairs and Fisheries Committees of the European Parliament, 1979–1994
Member of European Parliamentary delegations: to Central America, 1987-1994. To Soviet Union, 1989-1991.
To Commonwealth of Independent States, 1991-1994.
To Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, 1993-1994
Member of Council and Trustee of the RSPB, 1992-1995.
Spouse Johanna Youlten Howell (née Turnbull), 1987. Children: two.