George Howell (5 October 1833 – 17 September 1910) was an English trade unionist and reform campaigner and a Lib-Lab politician, who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1895.

[1] He was educated at a Church of England primary school in Bristol until the age of twelve, when he began work with his father, who owned a small builders.

Some of the men he worked with were active chartists and introduced him to radical newspapers including the Northern Star and the Red Republican.

He joined the Operative Bricklayers' Society (a New Model Trade Union) in 1859, and played a part in leading the London builders' strike in support of a nine-hour working day.

Through his work with the union he became one of the foremost New Model unionists, along with Robert Applegarth and George Potter, but was blacklisted by employers for five years.