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William Howell Ewin
William Howell Ewin (1731?–1804), was a usurer. He was the son of Thomas Ewin, formerly a grocer, and latterly a brewer in partnership with one Sparks of St. Sepulchre's, Cambridge, by a daughter of a coal merchant named Howell of St. Clement's in the same town.
==Education and early career==
He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, taking the degrees of B.A. 1753, M.A. 1756, and LL.D. 11 June 1766. He is said to have received a diploma of LL.D. from the University of Edinburgh in or about 1778, but his name does not occur in the ''Catalogue of Graduates'', 1858. On the death of his father he inherited his share of the brewing business and a handsome fortune, which he largely increased by private usury.
He was placed on the Commission of the Peace for the town and county of Cambridge. In 1769 he joined his old college tutor, Dr. William Samuel Powell, in opposing the act for better paving, lighting, and watching the town, by which the design was hindered for a time. William Cole wrote:
:"Being much of his father's turn, busy and meddling in other people's concerns, got the ill will of most persons in the town and university. …The gownsmen bore him a particular grudge for interfering much in their affairs. … They often broke the doctor's windows, as they said he had been caught listening on their staircases and doors. … Dr. Ewin, as did his father, squinted very much, hence his nickname of "Dr. Squintum"
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