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   Smyth
   William Henry
   W. H. S. ; Guglielmo E. Smith ;
   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 ;
   www.christies.com/lotfinder/books-manuscripts/smyth-admiral-william-henry-the-hydrography-5626054-details.aspx
   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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