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These included West India Docks ( 1802 ), East India Docks ( 1803, originating from the Brunswick Dock of 1790 ), London Docks ( 1805 ), Surrey Commercial Docks ( 1807, originating from the Howland Great Wet Dock of 1696 ), St Katharine Docks ( 1828 ), Royal Victoria Dock ( 1855 ), Millwall Dock ( 1868 ), Royal Albert Dock ( 1880 ), and Tilbury docks ( 1886 ).
View of the Howland Great Wet Dock in 1717 looking west across the Rotherhithe peninsula
It was named Howland Great Wet Dock in honour of John Howland.
Howland Great Wet Dock was sold by the fourth Duke of Bedford in 1763.
The world's first enclosed wet dock with lock gates to maintain a constant water level irrespective of tidal conditions was the Howland Great Dock on the River Thames, built in 1703.
At the time, the Great Dock at Rotherhithe was being constructed, on land leased from Elizabeth Howland, which formed part of the Howland Estate.
Around 1698, he began the construction of the Howland Great Wet Dock on the Thames, on some of his wife's dowry lands in Rotherhithe.

Howland and Dock
Nevertheless, encouraged by import duty exemptions, the South Sea Company financed 172 unprofitable whaling voyages from London's Howland Dock between 1725-32.
Companies such as: Howland Hook Marine Terminal ; Cadell Dry Dock ; Atlantic Salt ; Reynolds Launch ; Flagg Container Terminal ; Sandy Hook Pilots ; Staten Island Ferry DOT Maintenance Facility ; United States Coast Guard ; Clean Harbors ; May's shipyard ; Moran ', McAllister, Reinauer and K-Sea Towing serve the Kill Van Kull shoreline and the New York Harbor.

Howland and Rotherhithe
The Russells had been given a portion of land in lower Rotherhithe by a wealthy Streatham landowner, John Howland, as part of a wedding dowry for his daughter Elizabeth, granddaughter of Sir Josiah Child-the dictatorial chairman of the East India Company, who married Wrothesley Russell, the Marquis of Tavistock.

Howland and built
Walpole Academy, built in 1831 and attributed to master-builder Aaron Prentiss Howland, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Clement Weaver-Daniel Howland House | Clement Weaver House, a historic stone ender, built 1679, is one of the oldest homes in Rhode Island.
A new " Idle Hour ", designed by Hunt's son Richard Howland Hunt, was built on the same property from 1900-01 of brick and marble in the English Country Style and is now part of the Dowling College Campus.
In 1847 Perez Howland built a grocery.
The Keepers of the House is a 1964 novel by Shirley Ann Grau set in rural Alabama and covering seven generations of the Howland family that lived in the same house and built a community around themselves.
From this point, Lauder, Spears and Howland, built a logging railway to their sawmill at Lost Channel in 1917.
Lucien B. Howland was the former General Manager of the Irodale, Bancroft & Ottawa Railway, built by his father-in-law, the late Charles J. Pusey.
Edward Howland Robinson Green, known as " Colonel " Ned Green, the only son of the renowned female tycoon and miser, Hetty Green, built his home on Round Hill after his mother's death in 1916 left him with a fortune of between $ 100 and $ 200 million.

Howland and later
Initially he produced high quality coloring crayons through Wadsworth, Howland & Co. as early as 1906 and then later through his own company Binney & Smith purchased the Munsell Color Company crayon product line in 1926 and inherited 22 new colors, 11 in the maximum and 11 in the middle hue ranges.
He was born at the Ritz in London to John Ian Robert Russell, Lord Howland ( later 13th Duke ) and his first wife, Clare Gwendolyn Bridgman.
In 1857, Howland became Member of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada, and later served in the cabinet as Minister of Finance, Receiver General, Postmaster General and Minister of Finance.
In 1875, she presented her step-daughter, Miss Howland ( later Mrs. R. M. Merritt ) to Her Majesty.
He remarried Marguerite McClure Howland two years later and by that marriage Fenwick had a stepbrother, McClure ( Mac ) Howland.
* Joseph Howland, an American Civil War veteran who later served as New York State Treasurer
He was later killed in an Indian raid, but since then, a descendant of William Howland, most often a male named William, lived in the house and dominated affairs in Madison City and Wade County, which sprang up around Howland's original settlement.
After high school Howland played college basketball at Santa Barbara City College and Weber State University, and later played professional basketball in Uruguay.
A few days later the bank informed Lauder, Spears and Howland that their line of credit would not be extended.
He was the son of Margaret and Henry Howland, and the brother of Henry and Arthur Howland, who emigrated later from England to Marshfield, Massachusetts.

Howland and Surrey
The subsidiary titles of the Duke of Bedford, all in the Peerage of England, are: Marquess of Tavistock ( created 1694 ), Earl of Bedford ( 1550 ), Baron Russell, of Cheneys ( 1539 ), Baron Russell of Thornhaugh in the County of Northampton ( 1603 ), and Baron Howland, of Streatham in the County of Surrey ( 1695 ) ( and possibly the Barony of Bedford, which was merged into it in 1138, 1366 or 1414 ).

Howland and was
Howland Island was at last named after a lookout who sighted it from the whaleship Isabella of New Bedford on September 9, 1842.
Howland Island was uninhabited when the United States took possession of it in 1857 under the Guano Islands Act of 1856.
The settlement was named Itascatown after the USCGC Itasca that brought the colonists to Howland and made regular cruises between the other Line Islands during that era.
The facility was named Kamakaiwi Field after James Kamakaiwi, a young Hawaiian who had arrived with the first group of four colonists, was subsequently picked as leader and spent a total of over three years on Howland, far longer than the average recruit.
Howland was occupied by a battalion of the United States Marine Corps in September 1943 and known as Howland Naval Air Station until May 1944.
While Howland Island was colonized in 1935 as a future aviation facility and is known in popular culture mostly because of its association with the last flight of Earhart and Noonan, no aircraft is known to have ever landed there, although anchorages nearby could be used by floatplanes and flying boats during World War II.
Pomacanthidae | Angelfish and hump coral-Howland Island NWR. On June 27, 1974, Secretary of the Interior Rogers Morton created Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge which was expanded in 2009 to add submerged lands within of the island.
Howland Island was overflown in 1967 by Ann Dearing Holtgren Pellegreno and in 1997 by Linda Finch during memorial circumnavigation flights to commemorate Earhart's 1937 world flight.
Jarvis Island was reclaimed by the United States government and colonized from 26 March 1935 onwards, under the Baker, Howland and Jarvis Colonization Scheme ( see also Howland Island and Baker Island ).
" Tubman began attending meetings of suffragist organizations, and was soon working alongside women such as Susan B. Anthony and Emily Howland.
Their intended destination was Howland Island, a flat sliver of land 6, 500 ft ( 2, 000 m ) long and 1, 600 ft ( 500 m ) wide, 10 ft ( 3 m ) high and 2, 556 miles ( 4, 113 km ) away.
The United States Coast Guard cutter was on station at Howland, assigned to communicate with Earhart's Lockheed Electra 10E and guide them to the island once they arrived in the vicinity.
Through a series of misunderstandings or errors ( the details of which are still controversial ), the final approach to Howland Island using radio navigation was not successful.
During Earhart and Noonan's approach to Howland Island the Itasca received strong and clear voice transmissions from Earhart identifying as KHAQQ but she apparently was unable to hear voice transmissions from the ship.
When Earhart was at cruising altitude and midway between Lae and Howland ( over from each ) neither station heard her scheduled transmission at 0815 GCT.
After all contact was lost with Howland Island, attempts were made to reach the flyers with both voice and Morse code transmissions.
Other Navy search efforts were again directed north, west and southwest of Howland Island, based on a possibility the Electra had ditched in the ocean, was afloat, or that the aviators were in an emergency raft.
" Rear Admiral Richard R. Black, USN, who was in administrative charge of the Howland Island airstrip and was present in the radio room on the Itasca, asserted in 1982 that " the Electra went into the sea about 10 am, July 2, 1937 not far from Howland ".

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