When Howard Samuel Jewell Pedler was born on 17 March 1889, in Goodwood, South Australia, Australia, his father, William Pedler V, was 28 and his mother, Rosina Teague, was 27. He married Alice May Burrowes on 22 December 1910. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He died on 20 October 1978, at the age of 89, and was buried in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia.