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William Johnson Jowett
was a ‘Sign Artist and Advertising Contractor’ in Leeds. He designed the famous ‘Hall’s Distemper’ hoardings that decorated the embankment of the Great North Railway about the turn of the century.
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He died in 1896, aged 44, of chronic nephritis, an inflammation of the kidneys, having been in a uremic coma for 24 days.
Left: William Johnson Jowett c. 1883 and, above, c. 1895
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