Richard Howitt (poet)

He spent his earlier years as a pharmacist in Nottingham, at first in partnership with his brother William, but finally on his own account.

[1] Towards the end of 1839, Richard, in company with his brother, Dr. Godfrey Howitt, emigrated to Australia arriving in Port Phillip in 1840.

[2] He farmed on the Heidelberg Road until his return to England in 1844 and published his experiences in ' Impressions of Australia Felix during Four Years' Residence in that Colony, Notes of a Voyage round the World, Australian Poems/ &c., 1845.

This miscellany of prose and verse was described by Leigh Hunt as 'full of genuine pictures of nature, animate and inanimate.'

One of Richard poems, "Thou art Lovelier", was set to music in 1870 by William Legge.