THOMAS FREDERICK COLBY (1784-1852)
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Originally appearing in Volume
V06,
Page 660
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
THOMAS See also:FREDERICK See also:COLBY (1784-1852)
, See also:British See also:major-See also:general and director of See also:ordnance survey, was See also:born at St See also:Margaret's, See also:Rochester, on the 1st of See also:September 1784, a member of a See also:South See also:Wales See also:family
.
Entering the Royal See also:Engineers he began in 1802 a See also:life-See also:long connexion with the Ordnance Survey See also:department
.
His most important See also:work was the survey of See also:Ireland
.
This he planned in 1824, and was engaged upon it until 1846
.
The last sheets of this survey were almost ready for issue in that See also:year when he reached the See also:rank of major-general, and according to the rules of the service had to vacate his survey See also:appointment
.
He was the inventor of the See also:compensation See also:bar, an apparatus used in See also:base-measurements
.
He died at New See also:Brighton on the 9th of See also:October 1852
.
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