Bill Howell (architect)

William Gough Howell DFC ARA (1922 – 29 November 1974) was a British architect, the leading force in the firm of Howell, Killick, Partridge and Amis, and chair of the architecture department at Cambridge University from 1973 until his death the following year in a road accident.

[1] He was the son of Charles Gough Howell, Attorney-General of Singapore from 1936 to 1942, and his Australian wife, Sidney Gretchen Innes-Noad.

[2] He was educated at Marlborough College, before joining the Royal Air Force in 1939.

After the war, he studied architecture at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Howell died in a car accident on 29 November 1974, near Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire.