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Howell
Howell may refer to: Places In the United States * Howell, Georgia, an unincorporated community * Howell, Evansville, a neighborhood in Indiana * Howell, Michigan, a city in Livingston County * Howell County, Missouri * Howell, Missouri, an unincorporated community * Howell, Utah, a town * Howell Mountains, California * Howell Island, Missouri - see Howell Island Conservation Area * Howell Township (other), several places Elsewhere * Howell, Lincolnshire, England, a hamlet ** Asgarby and Howell, a civil parish in Lincolnshire * Howell, New South Wales, Australia, a locality and ghost town * Mount Howell, Ellsworth Land, Antarctica * Howell Peak, Oates Land, Antarctica Businesses * Howell, Soskin, a defunct American publisher acquired by Crown Books * John Howell & Son, British building and engineering company * Howell Works, a 19th century pig iron producing facility in New Jersey, United States Other uses *Howell (name), a surname and given name, incl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howell (name)
Howell ( , ) is a surname and given name originating from Wales. It is an Anglicisation, anglicised form of the Welsh name Hywel. It originates in a dynasty of kings in Wales and Brittany in the 9th and 10th-centuries, most notably king Hywel Dda ("Howel the Good") and three Welsh royal houses of that time onwards. The royal House of Tudor was also descended from them. Today, nearly 200,000 people bear this surname. Etymology and history Welsh origin The name Howell originates from the Welsh language, Welsh masculine given name, Hywel, meaning "eminent" or "prominent", derived from the Old Welsh given name, Higuel. Literally meaning, wiktionary:hy-#Welshhy, ''hy-'' (“good”) + wiktionary:gwêl#Welsh, ''gwêl'' (“sight”), "well-seen". The first known recording of the name comes in the ''Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'', referring to a Brittonic Peoples, Brittonic king known as Huwal of the West Welsh in 926 AD. Many scholars believe this to be referring to the 10th-century law ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howell Shrublands
Howell is a locality, on the western slopes of the Northern Tablelands, within the New England (New South Wales), New England region of New South Wales, Australia. There was once a mining village of the same name, now a ghost town. Much of the effective western boundary of the locality is part of the shoreline of Copeton Dam, Lake Copeton, as a portion of the locality is now inundated. Howell is mainly forested, with some land cleared for agriculture. The area now known as Howell lies on the traditional lands of Kamilaroi people. The name Howell also is applied to an endangered ecological community, ''Howell Shrublands in the New England Tableland and Nandewar Bioregions,'' based on distinctive natural vegetation. It is characterised by low shrubs, in particular ''Babingtonia densifolia'' and ''Homoranthus prolixus.'' However, the mix of species at sites varies considerably over time, including when all shrub species may be absent, resulting in a natural grassland, or when some ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howell, New South Wales
Howell is a locality, on the western slopes of the Northern Tablelands, within the New England region of New South Wales, Australia. There was once a mining village of the same name, now a ghost town. Much of the effective western boundary of the locality is part of the shoreline of Lake Copeton, as a portion of the locality is now inundated. Howell is mainly forested, with some land cleared for agriculture. The area now known as Howell lies on the traditional lands of Kamilaroi people. The name Howell also is applied to an endangered ecological community, ''Howell Shrublands in the New England Tableland and Nandewar Bioregions,'' based on distinctive natural vegetation. It is characterised by low shrubs, in particular '' Babingtonia densifolia'' and '' Homoranthus prolixus.'' However, the mix of species at sites varies considerably over time, including when all shrub species may be absent, resulting in a natural grassland, or when some eucalypts and cypress pines may be pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Howell & Son
John Howell & Son, known as John Howell, was the leading building and engineering company in Hastings, Sussex in the 1860s. Its founder, John Howell Senior (ca.1825−1893) engineered churches and other public buildings in the area to the designs of innovative architects, including Holy Trinity Church, Hastings, Holy Trinity Church in 1860 to the design of Samuel Sanders Teulon, and St Johns Church, Hollington, Hastings, Hollington in 1865−1868 for Edward Alexander Wyon. John Howell Junior (1851−1903) constructed the old Gothic Revival architecture, Gothic Revival Hastings Grammar School building to the design of Jeffery and Skiller in 1883. Howell Senior was a campaigner on behalf of the Liberal Party (UK), Liberal Party and held a prominent political position in the town from the 1860s to the 1880s. He came to Hastings as a fatherless boy, but was the Mayor of Hastings by 1878. John Howell Senior Personal history His mother was Sophia Howell of Birmingham, born around 179 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
