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Authorised form of nameWalker; James Thomas (1826 - 1896)
Dates1826 - 1896
NationalityBritish
Place of birthCannanore, India
Date of birth01 December 1826
Place of death13 Cromwell Road, London
Date of death16 February 1896
Dates and placesBurial:
Brompton cemetery, London
ActivityEducation:
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
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election01/06/1865
RelationshipsEldest 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
SourcesSources:
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
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/27367895
Royal Society codeNA6271
Archives associated with this Fellow
Reference numberTitleDate
EC/1865/16Walker, James Thomas: certificate of election to the Royal Society
MM/10/84Letter from Col JT Walker, Mussoorie [sic], to the Government of India11 August 1870
MM/14/105Letter from JT Walker, Dehra Doon, India, to Edward Sabinec.1860s
NLB/12/443Copy letter from Theodore E James, to [Messrs Harrison & Sons]19 February 1896
NLB/2/19Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society, 13 Cromwell Road, S.W.7 December 1887
NLB/2/772Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society2 November 1888
NLB/3/142Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to George Mathews Whipple, [Superintendent of Kew Observatory]26 March 1889
NLB/3/21Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society15 February 1889
NLB/3/121Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker20 March 1889
NLB/3/112Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society14 March 1889
NLB/3/143Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society26 March 1889
NLB/3/229Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society15 April 1889
NLB/3/267Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society25 April 1889
NLB/3/937Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society18 November 1889
NLB/8/1113Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society27 February 1894
NLB/11/565Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Mr G Pearson, 3 Bolt Court, Fleet Street, E.C.24 July 1895
NLB/11/550Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Mr George Pearson, Engraver, 3 Bolt Court, Fleet Street, E.C.22 July 1895
NLB/11/543Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society19 July 1895
NLB/11/533Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society17 July 1895
NLB/11/744Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society, Costylost, Washaway, Cornwall30 September 1895
NLB/11/719Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General [James Thomas] Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society, Costylost, Washaway, Cornwall24 September 1895
NLB/11/832Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to General James Thomas Walker, Fellow of the Royal Society14 October 1895
RR/12/401Referee's report by Alexander Ross Clarke, on a paper 'India's contribution to geodesy' by James Thomas Walker27 May 1895
RR/12/403Referee's report by Charles William Wilson, on a paper 'India's contribution to geodesy' by James Thomas Walker6 July 1895
RR/12/402Referee's report by George Howard Darwin, on a paper 'India's contribution to geodesy' by James Thomas Walker8 June 1895
MS/427/430Copy letter from [Thomas Henry] Huxley, President of the Royal Society; to the Astronomer Royal [William Henry Mahoney Christie]23 May 1885
MM/10/85Copy of letter from Col JT Walker, Dehra Doon, to Sir Edward Sabine11 August 1870
MC/9/405Letter from J T [James Thomas] Walker, 17 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, to Professor [George Gabriel] Stokes, Secretary of the Royal Society29 August 1872
MC/7/63Draft letter from Major-General Edward Sabine, President of the Royal Society, Burlington House, to Colonel J T [James Thomas] Walker RE, 47 Beaufort Gardens 30 April 1864
MC/7/93Letter from J [James] Challis, Plumian Professor of astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, to General [Edward] Sabine, [President of the Royal Society]11 June 1864
MC/7/147Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel J T [James Thomas] Walker, Surveyor Trigonometrical Survey of India, 1 Cromwell Road, South Kensington, to the Royal Society29 November 1864
MC/7/67Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel J T [James Thomas] Walker RE, Superintendent General for the Trigonometrical Survey of India, 24 Blessington Road, to [Thomas Baring], the Under Secretary of State for India, Military Department12 May 1864
MC/7/348Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel J T [James Thomas] Walker, Dehra Doon, Bombay, to General [Edward] Sabine, [President of the Royal Society]31 July 1866
MC/7/258Letter from Lieutenant-Colonel J T [James Thomas] Walker, Dehra Doon, Bombay, to W [William] Sharpey, [Secretary of the Royal Society]18 September 1865
MC/7Volume 7 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1864-1866
MC/8/74Letter from J T [James Thomas] Walker, Dehra Doon, Bombay, to General [Edward] Sabine, President of the Royal Society17 August 1867
MC/9Volume 9 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1870-June 1873
MS/257/5/38Copy of a letter from James Thomas Walker, Dehra Doon [Dehradun], to Edward Sabine11 August 1870
MS/257/5/39Letter from James Thomas Walker, 29 Alfred Place West to Edward Sabine28 February 1871
MC/8Volume 8 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1867-1869
RR/11/212Referee's report by James Thomas Walker, on the Bakerian Lecture 'On the grand currents of atmospheric circulation' by James Thomson16 May 1892
AP/63/6Unpublished paper, 'Report on tidal disturbances caused by volcanic eruptions at Java 26th - 27th August 1883 and the propagations of the "supertidal" waves' by [Andrew Wilson] Baird4 December 1883
PP/15/14Paper, 'On the unit of length of a standard scale by Sir George Shuckburgh, appertaining to the Royal Society' by [James Thomas] Walker1 February 1890
MS/257/5/36Letter from James Thomas Walker, Dehra Doon [Dehradun], to Edward Sabine2 January 1868
MS/257/5/37Copy of a letter from James Thomas Walker, Dehra Doon [Dehradun], to Balfour Stewart3 January 1868
PP/23/13Paper, 'Terrestrial refraction in the Western Himalayan Mountains' by James Thomas Walker12 January 1894
RR/12/40Referee'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 Strachey3 April 1893
MC/14/94Letter from Warren de la Rue, Chairmain, Kew Observatory, Richmond, to the Secretary of the Royal Society27 November 1885
RR/11/16Referee's report by James Thomas Walker, on a paper 'On hindoo [sic] astronomy' by William Brennand6 January 1892
MC/16/145Letter from [James Thomas] Walker, Dresden, to Professor [Michael] Foster16 July 1894
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/16Volume 16 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1893-1896
HS/18/14Letter, from James Thomas Walker to Sir John Herschel, dated at 24 Blessington Road, Lee, [Blackheath]6 June 1864
HS/18/13Letter, from James Thomas Walker to Sir John Herschel, dated at 24 Blessington Road, Lee, Blackheath2 January 1864
HS/18/15Letter, from James Thomas Walker to Sir John Herschel, dated at 1 Cromwell Road, South Kensington9 December 1864
HS/18/12Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to James Thomas Walker, dated at Collingwood24 December 1863
HS/18/16Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to James Thomas Walker, dated at Collingwood10 December 1864
HS/18/17Letter, from James Thomas Walker to Sir John Herschel, dated at 1 Cromwell Road, South Kensington15 December 1864
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