died suddenly on New Year's Day, 1981. Dr. Howarth was born in Pelsall, Staffordshire in July, 1916. Educated at Queen Mary's College, Walsall, he obtained a scholarship to Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1935, where in the next three years his academic achievements were quite outstand...
In 1932, at the age of 18 he constructed an apparatus with which he was able to receive one of Logie Baird's first television broadcast; a feat that was reported in the Times. He qualified MB BChir from Cambridge and Guy's Hospital in 1939 to which MA was later added. With war ...