Charles Augustus Howell
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Charles Augustus Howell (1840 – 1890) was an English-Portuguese art dealer who gained notoriety as a blackmailer that later inspired Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton".
Howell was a friend and business agent of both John Ruskin and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. He was also a friend of Felice Orsini, the failed regicide of Emperor Napoleon III of France.[1] In 1869, he persuaded Rossetti to exhume the remains of his late wife Elizabeth Siddal in order to retrieve her poems that was buried alongside her.[2]
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