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Sir Robert George HoweGBE KCMG (bornDerby,England, 19 September 1893, died 22 June 1981) was a Britishdiplomat who served asGovernor-General of theSudan from 1947 to 1954.

Howe was educated atDerby School andSt Catharine's College, Cambridge.

• Sixth Royal Dublin Fusiliers
• Third Secretary at British Embassy,Copenhagen, 1920
• Second Secretary, Copenhagen, 1920–1922
• Second Secretary,Belgrade, 1922–1924
• Second Secretary,Rio de Janeiro, 1924–1926
• First Secretary, Rio de Janeiro, 1926
• First Secretary,Bucharest, 1926–1929
• Foreign Office, 1930–1934
• Acting Counsellor atPeking, 1934–1936
• Counsellor, Peking, 1936
• British Minister inRiga, 1940–1942
• British Minister inAbyssinia, 1942–45
• Assistant Under-Secretary of State, Foreign Office, 1945
• Governor-General of theSudan, 1947–1955
• retired from Diplomatic Service, 1955
• Justice of the Peace,Cornwall, 1955–1968
• Mayor ofLostwithiel,Cornwall

In 1919, Howe married Loveday Mary Hext (1892-1970), and they had one son.

• Companion of theOrder of St Michael and St George, 1937
• Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, 1947
• Knight Grand Cross of theOrder of the British Empire, 1949

• Howe, Sir Robert George inWho Was Who 1897-2006 online, fromHOWE, Sir Robert George (accessed August 23, 2007)

• 1893 births
• 1981 deaths
• Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
• People educated at Derby School
• Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George
• Knights Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire
• People from Derby
• Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Ethiopia
• Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Latvia
• 20th-century British diplomats
• British expatriates in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

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