Category:Charlton Howitt

**Charlton Howitt**
	New Zealand surveyor (1838–1863)
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Date of birth	1838; Esher
Date of death	9 June 1863; Lake Brunner / Moana
Manner of death	accidental death;
Cause of death	drowning;
Occupation	surveyor; farmer; prospector;
Father	William Howitt;
Mother	Mary Howitt;
Sibling	Alfred William Howitt; Anna Mary Howitt;
Work location	Colony of New Zealand (1860–);
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Herbert Charlton Howitt was a farmer and gold prospector who arrived from Australia in New Zealand to farm in 1860. He led a working party contracted by the Canterbury Provincial Government to cut a track to the West Coast, via the Hurunui Plains, Harper Pass and Lake Brunner to the Grey River mouth. Howitt, together with two other members of his party, Robert Little and Henry Miller, drowned on Lake Brunner on 27 Jun 1863.

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George Dobson and Herbert Howitt.jpg 2,883 × 4,942; 7.36 MB
Herbert Howitt (cropped).jpg 793 × 1,294; 572 KB
Westland Explorers' Monument MRD 04.jpg 1,036 × 740; 361 KB

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