ADMIRALTY AND WAR DEPARTMENT HOWLETT REPORTS

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1891-1913

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These records were transferred from the Ministry of Defence Record Centre, Portsmouth, in 2011.

These documents were classified by their originating department (the Ministry of Defence, previously the War Department) as "Howlett Reports", named after Samuel Burt Howlett (1794-1874), a commissioned officer in the Royal Military Surveyors and Draughtsmen who single-handedly surveyed parts of Berkshire and Wiltshire for the Ordnance Survey. Seemingly, his name became synonymous with official surveys and reports relating to Admiralty and War Department land.