DOVER HARBOUR 1840

 

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Commissioners

His Grace the Duke of Wellington
R H Jenkinson Mayor of Dover
W O Hammond
Sir Edward Knatchbull MP
Sir J W H Brydges Knight the Earl of Guildford
J P Plumtre MP
Sir Brook William Bridges
Frederick Edward Morrice

 

Treasurer H Latham
Auditor & Registrar G W Ledger
Agent for Managing the Tonnage Duties John Shipdem
Collector of Tonnage and Harbour Droits J S Kelsey
Collector of Rents Philip Hardwick

Conveyance By Water

Her Majesty’s Mail Packets, on the Dover Station – To Calais daily (Monday excepted), and to Ostend every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, Commander Boteler agent.
Steam Packets Office for private packets on the Quay.
To Boulogne & Calais, the Alert, Britannia, Duke of Wellington, Lord Folkestone, Rachael, Royal George, Speculation and the Water Witch, daily, J Heyward agent.
* time of sailing, about three hours before high water

Customs House

Collector Michael Cullen Cotton
Controller James Sumner Kelsey
Landing Surveyor John Moon
Searchers and Landing Waiters John Brown, William Piper Tomlins and Polling Smithett
Tide Surveyors George Hammond and Henry Peake
Consulting Engineer James Walker
Assistant John Cooper
Harbour Master John Iron
Clerk W C Bray