Charles Augustus Howell
Portuguese-born British blackmailer and art dealer · Artists · Lived 1840 to 1890 · aged 50
Charles Augustus Howell was a Portuguese-British art dealer and alleged blackmailer who is best known for persuading the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti to dig up the poems he buried with his wife Elizabeth Siddal.
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About this person
His reputation as a blackmailer inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton".
Category
Artists
Type
Artist
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1840 to 1890 · aged 50
