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   James
   Henry
   H. J. ; Colonel / Sir Henry James ;
   
   
   1803 in Rose-in-Vale near St Agnes, Cornwall, Engl
   1877
   Southampton, Hampshire, England
   John James of Truro
   Jane (1xxx-18xx), daughter of John Hoskers
   attended a grammar school in Exeter, going on to study at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich;
   England, UK
   Geometrical projection of two thirds of the sphere ; Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem ; Isle of Man. Scale One Inch to a Statute Mile (1 : 63360) ;
   director-general of the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain & Ireland, the British Government mapping agency,
   cf., e.g., http://www.wellandantiquemaps.co.uk/British-Towns-Cities-G-M/IPSWICH-by-Henry-James-c-1868-Ordnance-Survey#main_content_jump
   introduced photomechanical printing of maps and of anthropological & geographic photographs in 1855; geographical and cartographical map-making
   http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HesHAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_James_%28British_Army_officer%29 ;
   Costa & Jardim: 41 ; M. E. Jardim, I. M. Peres & F. M. Costa: Role of photochemical processes in the development of colour printing in 19th c. cartography, in: A. Roca-Rosell (ed.): Circulation of Science & Technology (Barcelona 2012: 1010ff.) ; R. H. Vetch in Oxford DNB ; Theye 1989: 69
   British Army officer, specialist for photomechanical map-printing; lieutenant in the Royal Engineers in Sept. 1826, promoted to captain in 1846 & Colonel 1857.
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