When Ralph Howard Lovell was born on 6 December 1895, in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia, his father, Thomas Hills Lovell, was 38 and his mother, Charlotte Elizabeth Parker, was 37. He married Irene Beatrice Searle on 23 April 1919, in Cowell, South Australia, Australia. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died on 13 July 1951, in Ardrossan, South Australia, Australia, at the age of 55.