Jackie Howe

Jack "Jackie" Howe
Gravesite memorial inscription for Jack Howe in Blackall cemetery
Born(1861-07-26)26 July 1861
Killarney, Queensland
Died21 July 1920(1920-07-21) (aged 58)
OccupationShearer
Known forSheep shearing

John Robert Howe (10 July 1861 – 21 July 1920) was a legendary Australian sheep shearer at the end of the 19th century. He shot to fame in pre-Federation Australia in 1892 when he broke the daily and weekly shearing records across the colonies.

Howe was considered one of the three wonders of Queensland, along with Eulo publican and personality Isabel Gray (c. 1851–1929), and the cook and Barcaldine hotelier Jimmy Ah Foo.

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