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Second wife of Bishop John C. H. How (BA 1903). They married on 31 January 1939 in Glasgow.

How was admitted to St John's College in 1900, and graduated BA in 1903. He gained a first class in Part II of the Theological Tripos in 1904, winning the Mason Hebrew Prize, and was elected to a Tyrwhitt Hebrew Scholarship. How was ordained in 1905 and became Hebrew Lecturer at St John's (1906-20) and Precentor and Hebrew Lecturer at Trinity College (1907-20). During the First World War he served with the Royal Army Chaplains Department. From 1920 to 1924 How was Superior of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd, Cambridge. He was an Honorary Canon of Liverpool Cathedral (1922-31), Diocesan Missioner at Manchester (1924-6), Rector of St Nicholas, Liverpool (1926-35), and Rural Dean of Liverpool North (1930-5). How served as Chaplain to the King from 1933 to 1938, and as Vicar of West Blatchington, Sussex, 1935-8. He was a Canon of Chichester Cathedral, and was Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway from 1938 to 1952. How died in 1961, aged 79.

Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and Professor Emerita of Architectural History and Director of Research in the Faculty of Architecture and History of Art at the University of Cambridge.

Novelist.

She was born Gabrielle Louise Caroline Matthaei, one of three daughters of a German, French and Swiss family. Gabrielle studied Natural Sciences at Newnham College 1895-99 and became a Fellow. She married Albert Howard in 1905. In 1913 she was appointed second imperial botanist to the government of India. With her husband, she established the Institute of Plant Industry at Indore in 1924. Published nearly 150 papers and monographs on agricultural and botanical subjects, mostly in collaboration with Albert Howard.

BA (Trinity Hall) 1893; Fellow and Senior Bursar, 1923-1943. Author of 'An account of the finances of the College of St John the Evangelist in the University of Cambridge 1511-1926' (1926).

She was born Louise Ernestine Matthaei, one of three daughters of a German, French and Swiss family. She studied Classics at Newnham College 1900-5 and became a Fellow. She served as chief of the agricultural section of the International Labour Organization from 1924. Following her marriage to Albert Howard in 1931 she became an advocate of organic husbandry. After his death she co-founded the Albert Howard Foundation, which in 1953 merged with the Soil Association of which she became honorary life vice-president.