Charles Augustus Howell

Charles Augustus Howell
Photograph of Howell by Elliott & Fry, 1860s
Born	(1840-03-10)10 March 1840 Porto, Portugal
Died	21 April 1890(1890-04-21) (aged 50) Chelsea, London, England
Occupation	Art dealer

Charles Augustus Howell (10 March 1840 – 21 April 1890) was an 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. His reputation as a blackmailer inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton".^[1]