Laurence Hotham Howie (22 August 1876 – 18 October 1963) was a South Australian sculptor painter and art teacher.
[2] He was educated at Port Elliot and at Prince Alfred College in Adelaide, where James Ashton conducted art classes.
The School of Design was taken over by the Education Department from the Board of the Public Library, Museum, and Art Gallery in 1909, and its director of over 30 years, H. P. Gill, became principal of the Adelaide School of Art,[3] and Howie was appointed his assistant.
[4] Wright was killed in 1917 and Howie was appointed director of the school, retiring in 1944, to be replaced by John C. Goodchild.
He married Janet Johnstone Isabella Davidson (ca.1877 – 16 March 1948) on 17 July 1919; they had a home at 48 Foster street, Parkside.