Howat, Gerald (Malcolm David)

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HOWAT, Gerald (Malcolm David)

HOWAT, Gerald (Malcolm David). British, b. 1928. Genres: Education, History, Sports/Fitness, Biography. Career: Principal Lecturer-Emeritus, Culham College, Oxon, 1984- (Head, Dept. of History, 1960-73). Visiting Professor of History, University of Western Kentucky, 1990-96; Royal Air Force, 1950-52; Staff Texaco (Trindad), 1952-55; Head, Dept. of History, Kelly College, Tavistock, 1955-60, and Radley College, Oxon, 1973-77; Sr. Tutor, Lord Williams's School, Thame, Oxon., 1977-86; Chief Examiner in History, Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board, 1962-88; cricket journalist, 1975-. Schools' and England Under 19 Cricket Correspondent, Daily Telegraph, 1996-2002, and Cricketer International, 1990-2002. Publications: From Chatham to Churchill, 1966; (with A. Howat) The Story of Health, 1967; The Teaching of Empire and Commonwealth History, 1967; Stuart and Cromwellian Foreign Policy, 1974; The Oxford and Cambridge Schools Examination Board 1873-1973, 1974; Learie Constantine, 1975; Village Cricket, 1980; Cricketer Militant, 1980; (with L.G.R. Naylor) Culham College: A History, 1982; Walter Hammond, 1984; Plum Warner, 1987; Len Hutton, 1988; Cricket's Second Golden Age, 1989; Cricket Medley, 1993; A History of Worth Moreton, 2000; A History of the School of St Helen at St Katharine, 2003. EDITOR: Essays to a Young Teacher, 1966; Dictionary of World History, 1973; Documents in European History 1789-1970, 1974; Who Did What, 1975; Bud Finch Remembers, 1989; (associate and contrib.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2003. Address: Old School House, North Moreton, Didcot, Oxon. OX11 9BA, England.