| Authorised form of name | Walker; James Thomas (1826 - 1896) |
| Surname | Walker |
| Forenames | James Thomas |
| Dates | 1826 - 1896 |
| Nationality | British |
| Dates and places | Birth:
Cannanore, India (01 December 1826)
Death:
13 Cromwell Road, London (16 February 1896)
Burial:
Brompton cemetery, London |
| Activity | Education:
East India College, Addiscombe
Career:
Received a commission in the Bombay Engineers (1844); went to India (1846); surveyed the northern frontier (1849-1853); Lieutenant (1853); Assistant, Trigonometrical Survey of India under Sir Andrew Scott Waugh (FRS 1858) (1853-1860); served and severely wounded in the Indian Mutiny; Major (1858); Superintendent of the Trigonometrical Survey of India (1861-1883); Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Engineers; Surveyor General of India (1878-1883); Major General (1878); General (1884)
Honours:
CB 1877 |
| Royal Society activity | Membership:
Fellow
Election Date:
1/06/1865 |
| Relationships | Eldest son of John Walker of the Madras Civil Service and his wife Margaret Allen of Edinburgh; married (1854) Alice, daughter of Sir John Scott, general |
| Sources | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1895-1896 vol 59 pp xliii-xlvi signed by C R M
Notes:
The Qualifications section of the election certificate (ie the citiation) is blank |
| Royal Society code | NA6271 |
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| EC/1865/16 | Walker, James Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MM/10/84 | Letter from Col JT Walker, Mussoorie [sic], to the Government of India | 11 August 1870 |
| MM/14/105 | Letter from JT Walker, Dehra Doon, India, to Edward Sabine | c.1860s |
| NLB/12/443 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons] | 19 February 1896 |
| NLB/2/19 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society, 13 Cromwell Road, S.W. | 7 December 1887 |
| NLB/2/772 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society | 2 November 1888 |
| NLB/3/142 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George Mathews Whipple, [Superintendent of Kew Observatory] | 26 March 1889 |
| NLB/3/21 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society | 15 February 1889 |
| NLB/3/121 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker | 20 March 1889 |
| NLB/3/112 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society | 14 March 1889 |
| NLB/3/143 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society | 26 March 1889 |
| NLB/3/229 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society | 15 April 1889 |
| NLB/3/267 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 April 1889 |
| NLB/3/937 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society | 18 November 1889 |
| NLB/8/1113 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society | 27 February 1894 |
| NLB/11/565 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr G Pearson, 3 Bolt Court, Fleet Street, E.C. | 24 July 1895 |
| NLB/11/550 | Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Mr George Pearson, Engraver, 3 Bolt Court, Fleet Street, E.C. | 22 July 1895 |
| NLB/11/543 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society | 19 July 1895 |
| NLB/11/533 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society | 17 July 1895 |
| NLB/11/744 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society, Costylost, Washaway, Cornwall | 30 September 1895 |
| NLB/11/719 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society, Costylost, Washaway, Cornwall | 24 September 1895 |
| NLB/11/832 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society | 14 October 1895 |
| RR/11/16 | Referee's report by James Thomas Walker, on a paper 'On hindoo astronomy' by William Brennand | 6 January 1892 |
| RR/11/212 | Referee's report by James Thomas Walker, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the grand currents of atmospheric circulation' by James Thomson | 16 May 1892 |
| RR/12/401 | Referee's report by Alexander Ross Clarke, on a paper 'India's contribution to geodesy' by James Thomas Walker | 27 May 1895 |
| RR/12/402 | Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'India's contribution to geodesy' by James Thomas Walker | 8 June 1895 |
| RR/12/403 | Referee's report by Charles William Wilson, on a paper 'India's contribution to geodesy' by James Thomas Walker | 6 July 1895 |
| MS/427/430 | Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society; to the Astronomer Royal [William Henry Mahoney Christie] | 23 May 1885 |
| MM/10/85 | Copy of letter from Col JT Walker, Dehra Doon, to Sir Edward Sabine | 11 August 1870 |
| RR/12/40 | Referee's report by James Thomas Walker, on a paper 'Harmonic analysis of hourly observations of air temperature and pressure at British observatories.—part I. Temperature' by Richard Strachey | 3 April 1893 |