Sir John Alfred Golding Howard (17 November 1901 – 2 January 1986) was a British civil engineer, described by The Daily Telegraph as "one of the last great construction pioneers" who "will long be remembered in the industry as a visionary for whom no engineering challenge was too much".
[1] Born in Sydney, Australia, on 17 November 1901, John Howard was educated at Bedford School.
In October 1984, he attended the Conservative Party Conference at Brighton, and was only two rooms away from Norman Tebbit when the Brighton hotel bombing occurred, emerging unscathed.
[3] Sir John Howard was knighted in 1954, Chairman of the Harpur Trust between 1966 and 1978, and became Deputy Lieutenant of Bedfordshire in 1978.
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