| Authorised form of name | Hennessey; John Baboneau Nickterlien (1829 - 1910) |
| Other forms of name | John Babanau Nickerlieu |
| Dates | 1829 - 1910 |
| Place of birth | Fatehpur, Northern India |
| Date of birth | 01 August 1829 |
| Place of death | Alleyn park, West Dulwich, London |
| Date of death | 23 March or 23 May 1910 |
| DatesAndPlaces | Burial:
Elmer's End cemetery, near Beckenham, Kent |
| Activity | Education:
Jesus College, Cambridge (1863-1865)
Career:
Worked in Bengal for the junnior branch of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India; promoted to snior branch (1854); visited England (1863); introduced to India the reproduction of survey sheets using the photo-zincographic process (1865); Deputy Superintendent Great Trigonometrical Survey of India; Fellow Commoner, Jesus College, Cambridge; retired (1884); settled in England
Honours:
CIE 1885
Memberships:
FRAS; FRGS
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| Membership category | Fellow |
| Date of election | 03/06/1875 |
| Relationships | Son of Michael Henry Hennessey and his Indian wife; married (1868) Elizabeth Golden, daughter of R Malcolm Ashman |
| Source | Sources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Notes:
DNB gives death date as 23 May 1910 |
| Code | NA6447 |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| EC/1875/24 | Hennessey, John Baboneau Nickterlien: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| MM/17/118 | Letter from JBN Hennessey, Survey of India, to the Secretary of the Royal Society | 27 January 1882 |
| IM/Maull/002037 | Hennessey, John Bobaneau Nickterlien | nd |
| NLB/6/1100 | Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor John Baboneau Nickterlien Hennessy, Fellow of the Royal Society | 25 October 1892 |
| NLB/7/897 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 23 May 1893 |
| NLB/8/964 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 29 January 1894 |
| NLB/7/147 | Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons | 10 December 1892 |
| NLB/16/547 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to J B N Hennessey, Fellow of the Royal Society, West Dulwich | 27 April 1898 |
| NLB/42/387 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, Secretary RS to Colonel S [Sidney] G [Gerald] Burrard FRS, Dehra Dun, India | 2 June 1910 |
| RR/8/226 | Referee's report by Henry Enfield Roscoe and Balfour Stewart, on a paper 'On actinometrical observations, made in India at Mussooree and Dehra in October and November, 1879' by John Baboneau Nickterlien Hennessey | 8 June 1880 |
| RR/8/227 | Letter from Balfour Stewart, to George Gabriel Stoke, regarding a paper 'On actinometrical observations, made in India at Mussooree and Dehra in October and November, 1879' by John Baboneau Nickterlien Hennessey | 26 October 1880 |
| PP/1/17 | Paper, 'On the constituent of the atmosphere which absorbs radiant heat' by S A Hill | 1881 |
| MS/257/2/246 | 'Memo on Mr Haughton's directions for ascertaining the direct evaporation of a water surface' by John Bobanau Nickerlieu [Nickterlien] Hennessey | [1866] |
| MS/257/2/245 | Letter from John Bobanau Nickerlieu [Nickterlien] Hennessey, Mussoorie to Edward Sabine | 21 October 1866 |
| AP/52/5 | Unpublished observations, 'Record of observations made with actinometer at Dehra and Mussoorie in India' by J B N [John Baboneau Nickterlien] Hennessey and W H Cole | 1870 |
| PP/2/8 | Paper, 'On actinometrical observations made in India at Mussorie [Mussoorie] in autumn of 1880 and summer and autumn of 1881' by J B N [John Baboneau Nickterlien] Hennessey | 1882 |
| MS/257/2/247 | Letter from John Bobanau Nickerlieu [Nickterlien] Hennessey, Dehra Doon [Dehradun] to Edward Sabine | 5 December 1866 |
| MS/257/2/244 | Letter from John Bobanau Nickerlieu [Nickterlien] Hennessey, Dehra Doon [Dehradun] to Edward Sabine | 13 February 1866 |
| RR/7/381 | Referee's report by Warren De La Rue, on a paper 'On the atmospheric lines of the solar spectrum, illustrated by a map drawn on the same scale as that adopted by Kirchhoff' by John Baboneau Nickterlien Hennessey | 15 February 1875 |