Sir Alfred Bakewell Howitt CVO (11 February 1879 – 8 December 1954[1]) was an English medical doctor who became a Conservative Party politician.
After several years as a hospital doctor in London, he served during the First World War in France as a captain in the Royal Army Medical Corps, before returning to London in 1919 and practising as a physician in Berkeley Square.
[3] Howitt first stood for Parliament at the 1929 general election in Preston, where he failed to win either of the two seats.
[5] In Parliament, Howitt worked with doctors in other political parties, and was chairman of the Parliamentary Medical Committee in 1943.
[3] He was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in April 1928,[6] and knighted in the 1945 New Years Honours List, for political and public services.