Roger Howman 1640-1705
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Roger HOWMAN 1640-1705
Biographical Note
Son of Roger Howman of Salle, Norfolk, rector there. BA Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 1662, MA 1665, MD 1674. Practised as a physician in Norwich.
Characteristic Markings
Howman used an engraved bookplate, Franks 15569, also used in adapted form by his son and grandson; the extent and disposition of his library is not known.
Sources
- Blatchly, J. Some Suffolk and Norfolk ex-libris, 2000.
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
- Venn, J. & J. A. Alumni Cantabrigienses. Cambridge, 1922.