William Harold Jowett 

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.