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Timeline
Date | Details |
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1803 | Born, Cornwall. |
1825-1826 | R.E. (Royal Engineers) 2nd Lieutenant 1826. |
1827 | Appointed to Ordnance Survey (geological work interested him). |
1845 | Appointed local Superintendent of Geological Survey of Ireland (on recommendation of Col. Colby). |
1846 | Resigned. |
1846 | Transferred to Admiralty, sent to Portsmouth as Superintendent of constructional works in dockyard. Promoted to Captain. |
1847 | Appointed Member of Commission for inquiring into application of iron in railway structures. |
1848 | Elected F.R.S. |
1850 | Returned to Ordnance Survey, divisional headquarters at Edinburgh. |
1851 | Appointed Associate Juror for naval architecture, ordnance etc – comprising class vii in Great Exhibition. |
1853 | Sent to Brussels on special service. |
1854 | Promoted to Brevet-Major. |
1854 | Director-General of Ordnance Survey. |
1856 | Arthur’s Seat observations to obtain mean S.G. of the earth. |
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 |
1857 | Promoted to Colonel. |
1858 | Member of Committee appointed by Council of Geological Society to revise the Greenough Geological Map. |
1860 | Knighted. James’s principal work – photozincography. Introduced at Ordnance Survey office 1859. Attracted attention abroad. |
1868 | Major-General. |
1874 | Lieut. General. |
1875 | Resigned from Ordnance Survey. |
1877 | Died at Southampton 14th June. |
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
Henry James (British Army officer) — Wikipedia article