death_date death_place children birth_place parents birth_date spouse image article_title education name occupation
4 december 1873 -lrb- aged 73 -rrb- caulfield three sons and a daughter heanor in derbyshire thomas howitt and phoebe tantum 8 october 1800 phoebe bakewell godfrey howitt.jpg godfrey howitt
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godfrey howitt

godfrey howitt -lrb- 8 october 1800 -- 4 december 1873 -rrb- , entomologist , was born in heanor in derbyshire to thomas howitt .
thomas had farmed a few acres of land at heanor and joined the society of friends on his marriage with phoebe tantum , a member of the same society , with whom he acquired a considerable fortune .
godfrey was educated at mansfield and tutored by his brother william before graduating from edinburgh university medical school with an md in 1830 .
he married phoebe bakewell the following year , on 6 april 1831 , at the friends ' meeting house in castle donington .
he practised medicine in leicester and in nottingham was honorary physician at both the city infirmary and the general hospital .
