Jowett was born on 23 December 1891, in England. He emigrated to Canada in 1911, By 1927, he was billing himself as the "world's strongest man" in
The Morning Call. Jowett was the editor of
Strength magazine from 1924 to 1927, and he authored several books about strength training. Jowett co-founded the American Continental Weightlifting Association (ACWLA) with
Ottley Russell Coulter and
David P. Willoughby in the early 1920s, and he served as its president. He subsequently served as the director of the Breitbart Institute of Physical Culture in New York City, and he founded the Jowett Institute in 1927. They resided in Riverside Heights, Ontario, Canada. Jowett died in 1969 in
Winchester, Ontario, Canada. ==Selected works==