R. H. (Robert Howlett)

R. H. (identified in some library and archive records as Robert Howlett) is the attributed author of The School of Recreation, a work that circulated in multiple early editions and was later printed in a 1736 edition under the byline “R. H.”. The book gathers advice and material on pursuits such as hunting, riding, racing, hawking, fowling, and fishing, reflecting the interests of readers drawn to practical leisure manuals in that period.

Very little dependable biographical information about the author appears to survive in easily verified modern sources. Because of that, it is safer to treat Robert Howlett as an attribution attached to the work rather than to build a detailed life story around him. What can be said with confidence is that the name is associated with a long-lived recreational handbook that preserved a slice of everyday sporting culture from its time.