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Authorised form of nameThomson; Sir; John Deas (c 1763 - 1838); British Navy administrator
Datesc 1763 - 1838
NationalityBritish
Place of birthEdinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Date of birth1763
Date of death21 February 1838
OccupationNaval official; colonial official
ActivityCareer:
Naval officer and store-keeper, Leith Scotland (1801); Private Secretary to Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, the First Lord of the Admiralty (1805-1806);.Navy Commissioner (1805-1829); Accountant-General of the Navy (1829-1832); Naval Store Keeper, Cape of Good Hope dockyard [South Africa]; Cape Thompson, an Alaskan headland on the Chukchi Sea was named after him by Captain Frederick William Beechey RN (1826)
Honours:
KCH 1832
Memberships:
FLS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election16/11/1820
RelationshipsSon of John ThomsonMarried Rebecca Freer, daughter of John a South Carolina planter
OtherInfoReceived compensation on the emancipation of enslaved people due to his interest as a trustee for a creditor or mortgage holder of a plantation in St Kitts.
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; Wikipedia; GM; ODNB (entry for Edward Deas Thomson); UCL LBS
References:
'Sir John Deas Thomson', Legacies of British Slavery database, http://wwwdepts-live.ucl.ac.uk/lbs/person/view/43995 [accessed 23rd July 2020]
CodeNA4553
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1820/09Thomson, John Deas: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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