Eliza Anne Warington, nicknamed "Annarella"in 1815, only daughter of T. Warington, Esq., from Naples ;
sons: astron.->Charles Piazzi Smyth (1819-1900), Sir Warington Wilkinson S. & General Sir Henry Augustus S.; daughters Henrietta Grace&Georgia Rosetta
1788 in Westminster, London, England
1865
Cardiff, Cornwall, England
W.H.S. was the only son of Joseph Brewer Palmer Smyth, Esq. & his wife Georgina Caroline, born Pilkington
Arthur Smyth Flower (grandson)
training as officer for Royal Navy
United Kingdom
W. H. S.: The Mediterranean. A memoir, physical, historical, and nautical (London 1854) ; The Hydrography of Sicily, Malta, and the adjacent islands; surveyed 1814-16 (London: Admiralty Hydrographical Office, 1823) ;
Royal Geographical Society (1830 member, later pres.); Royal Society London (1826 Fellow, later vice-pres); Royal Astronomical Society (memb. & pres.)
->C. P. Smyth (son) ; Italian astronomer Giuseppe Piazzi in Palermo ; publisher Parker, London ;
astronomical and geographical drawing, watercolour and painting ; hand-colouring of plans ; topographic, maritime and cartographical map-making ;
http://pinetreeweb.com/bp-admiral.htm ; for a list of his (often profusely self-illustr.) publ. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Smyth
DNB 53 1898 ; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 26 (1865): 121-9 ; John Blake: Vermessung der Meere (2007: 34) ; Omar Nasim: James Nasmyth on the Moon; Or on Becoming a Lunar Being Without the Lunacy,” in Selene’s Two Faces: From 17th Century Drawings to Spacecraft Imaging, ed. Carmen Pérez González, Leiden, 2018.
Known as Admiral of the Royal Navy & amateur astronomer ; for his maps cf. http://search.digmap.eu/Handler?verb=search&encoding=UTF-8&html=true&collectionId=1&query=William+Henry+Smyth.
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