Henry James Sir, H.E. - Revision history

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	[https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=Code==%27NA2879%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl James; Sir; Henry (1803 - 1877); Knight Director General of the Ordnance Survey] Royal Society past Fellows		[https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=Code==%27NA2879%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl James; Sir; Henry (1803 - 1877); Knight Director General of the Ordnance Survey] Royal Society past Fellows

			James, Sir Henry (1803-1877) surveyor, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/14606

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	[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_(British_Army_officer) Henry James (British Army officer)] — Wikipedia article		[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_(British_Army_officer) Henry James (British Army officer)] — Wikipedia article

			[https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=Code==%27NA2879%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl James; Sir; Henry (1803 - 1877); Knight Director General of the Ordnance Survey] Royal Society past Fellows

	== BGS archives ==		== BGS archives ==

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	Duncan, P.M. Obituary - Sir Henry James, F.R.S. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 34 p.34-35. 1878		Duncan, P.M. Obituary - Sir Henry James, F.R.S. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 34 p.34-35. 1878

	[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_(British_Army_officer) Henry James (British Army officer)] — Wikipedia article ~~(very extensive article)~~		[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_(British_Army_officer) Henry James (British Army officer)] — Wikipedia article

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	Duncan, P.M. Obituary - Sir Henry James, F.R.S. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 34 p.34-35. 1878		Duncan, P.M. Obituary - Sir Henry James, F.R.S. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 34 p.34-35. 1878

	[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_(British_Army_officer) Henry James (British Army officer)] — Wikipedia article		[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_(British_Army_officer) Henry James (British Army officer)] — Wikipedia article (very extensive article)

	~~== Publications ==~~

	== BGS archives ==		== BGS archives ==

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	== BGS archives ==		== BGS archives ==
			{\| class="wikitable"
			! Ref No !! Title !! Description
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/2/311 \|\| H James: Letter on use of iron in railways \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/3/33-35 \|\| H. James: Letter on his appointment. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/3/35 \|\| H. James: Letter to F. McCoy. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/3/82 \|\| H. James: Letter on building stones. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/3/164 \|\| R. Kane: Letter to H. James. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/3/185-187, 190, 210, 216-225 \|\| H. James: Letters on his resignation. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/3/216 \|\| R. Kane: Mentioned in letter of H. James. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/3/218 \|\| H.T. De la Beche: Letters: Ireland. James' resignation. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/6/244 \|\| H James: Letter on re-engraving maps. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/6/251-252 \|\| H James: Letter on surplus maps. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/6/291 \|\| H James: Letter on credits on maps. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/7/7-9 \|\| H James: Letter on statistics of coal. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/7/329 \|\| H James: Letter on defective maps. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/8/143,152-154,166 \|\| H James: Letter on money for engraving. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/11/37 \|\| H James: Mentioned in letter of T. Colby. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/11/130 \|\| H James: Letters on his resignation. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/11/135 \|\| H James: Annual Report, 1845-46. \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/16/20-21 \|\| H James: Letter on mineral districts to be mapped \|\|
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			\| GSM/DC/A/C/25/24-25 \|\| H James: Letter on vertical sections. \|\|
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{| class="wikitable"
! Date !! Details
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| 1803 || Born, Cornwall.
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| 1825-1826 || R.E. (Royal Engineers) 2nd Lieutenant 1826.
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| 1827 || Appointed to Ordnance Survey (geological work interested him).
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| 1845 || Appointed local Superintendent of Geological Survey of Ireland (on recommendation of Col. Colby).
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| 1846 || Resigned.
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| 1846 || Transferred to Admiralty, sent to Portsmouth as Superintendent of constructional works in dockyard. Promoted to Captain.
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| 1847 || Appointed Member of Commission for inquiring into application of iron in railway structures.
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| 1848 || Elected F.R.S.
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| 1850 || Returned to Ordnance Survey, divisional headquarters at Edinburgh.
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| 1851 || Appointed Associate Juror for naval architecture, ordnance etc – comprising class vii in Great Exhibition.
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| 1853 || Sent to Brussels on special service.
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| 1854 || Promoted to Brevet-Major.
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| 1854 || Director-General of Ordnance Survey.
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| 1856 || Arthur’s Seat observations to obtain mean S.G. of the earth.
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| 1857 || Appointed Director of topographical and statistical department of War Office (staff combined with Ordnance Survey and placed under James’s direction) – continued till severence of Ordnance Survey from War Department and transfer to Office of Works in 1870
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| 1857 || Promoted to Colonel.
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| 1858 || Member of Committee appointed by Council of Geological Society to revise the Greenough Geological Map.
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| 1860 || Knighted. James’s principal work – photozincography. Introduced at Ordnance Survey office 1859. Attracted attention abroad.
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| 1868 || Major-General.
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| 1874 || Lieut. General.
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| 1875 || Resigned from Ordnance Survey.
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| 1877 || Died at Southampton 14th June.
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== Biographies and obituaries ==

Duncan, P.M. Obituary - Sir Henry James, F.R.S. [In Anniversary Address.]. Proceedings of the Geological Society in Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society. v. 34 p.34-35. 1878

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_(British_Army_officer) Henry James (British Army officer)] — Wikipedia article

== Publications ==

== BGS archives ==

[[Category:Pioneers of the British Geological Survey]]