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Authorised form of nameWharton; Sir; William James Lloyd (1843 - 1905)
Dates1843 - 1905
NationalityBritish
Place of birthLondon, England, United Kingdom
Date of birth02 March 1843
Place of deathObservatory, Capetown, South Africa, Africa
Date of death29/09/1905
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Naval cemetery, Simonstown, South Africa
ActivityCareer:
Captain, Royal Navy; died of Enteric fever
Honours:
CB 1895; KCB 1897
Memberships:
FRAS; FRGS
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election04/06/1886
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc Series A 1906-1907 vol 78 pp xliv-xlix signed by A M F
References:
Margaret B Deacon, 'G. Herbert Fowler (1861-1940): The Forgotten Oceanographer' in NR 1983-84 vol 38 pp 261-296
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/42612498
CodeNA8025
Archives associated with this Fellow
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IM/Maull/004853Wharton, Sir William James Lloydnd
NLB/2/276Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Captain William James Lloyd Wharton [Fellow of the Royal Society]23 March 1888
NLB/3/274Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Captain William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society26 April 1889
NLB/3/581Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Francis Galton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Chairman of Kew Committee18 July 1889
NLB/6/488Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Captain William James Lloyd Wharton, Royal Engineers, Fellow of the Royal Society, Hydrography Department, Admiralty23 May 1892
NLB/5/147Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Captain William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society2 April 1891
NLB/6/1171Copy letter from Michael Foster, to William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society3 November 1892
NLB/5/416Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Captain William James Lloyd Wharton, [Fellow of the Royal Society]5 June 1891
NLB/7/17Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster11 November 1892
NLB/5/624Copy letter from A H White, to Captain William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society27 July 1891
NLB/5/636Copy letter from A H White, to Captain William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society30 July 1891
NLB/27/776Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William [James Lloyd] Wharton, [Fellow of the Royal Society][27 November 1903]
NLB/9/451Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster, Secretary, Royal Society19 May 1894
NLB/9/362Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Captain Ettrick William Creak, Fellow of the Royal Society, The Admiralty, S.W.7 May 1894
NLB/9/3Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Captain William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society9 March 1894
NLB/11/375Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans, Treasurer, Royal Society18 June 1895
NLB/11/819Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Sir John Evans10 October 1895
NLB/9/956Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Captain Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society31 July 1894
NLB/14/143Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr Thomas Lauder Brunton; William Davidson Niven; Professor M Ward; Admiral William James Wharton, Fellows of the Royal Society12 January 1897
NLB/14/59Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Secretaries of the Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society, Burlington House, W.18 December 1896
NLB/14/281Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Admiral William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society9 February 1897
NLB/22/211Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William [James Lloyd] Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society25 March 1901
NLB/18/457Copy letter from an unknown correspondent, to Sir William [L] Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society14 March 1899
NLB/16/438Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Admiral Sir William Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society4 April 1898
NLB/16/359Copy letter from Arthur William Rucker, to Sir Clements R Markham, President of the Royal Geographical Society21 March 1898
NLB/17/50Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Professor George Howard Darwin, Dr Alexander Buchan, William Napier Shaw, Admiral Sir William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellows of the Royal Society8 July 1898
NLB/19/15Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to to Admiral Sir William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society2 June 1899
NLB/19/14Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Admiral Sir William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society2 June 1899
NLB/19/494Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Rear-Admiral, Sir William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society, The Admiralty, Whitehall, S.W. 16 October 1899
NLB/19/207Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to the Senior Secretary of the Royal Society12 July 1899
NLB/19/182Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr John Scott Keltie, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society, 1 Savile Row, W.8 July 1899
NLB/20/342Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Sir William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society28 March 1900
NLB/22/331Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Rear-Admiral Sir [William James Lloyd] Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Hydrographic Department, Admiralty, S.W.24 April 1901
NLB/21/607Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Admiral Sir William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society18 December 1900
NLB/24/643Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Admiral Sir William Wharton, [Fellow of the Royal Society], Florys, Prince's Road, Wimbledon Park, S.W.11 June 1902
NLB/26/583Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Rear Admiral Sir William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society23 April 1903
NLB/25/813Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society7 January 1903
NLB/26/693Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Rear Admiral Sir William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Admiralty, S.W.12 May 1903
NLB/26/853Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison to, Rear Admiral Sir William Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society11 June 1903
NLB/28/303Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Admiral Sir William Wharton16 February 1904
NLB/28/292Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Admiral Sir William Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society12 February 1904
NLB/30/836Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Sir William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society30 May 1905
NLB/28/544Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Admiral Sir William Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society28 March 1904
NLB/10/524Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Professor Michael Foster11 December 1894
NLB/9/360Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Captain William James Lloyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society, Hydrographer to the Admiralty, S.W.7 May 1894
NLB/13/533Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Admiral William James LLoyd Wharton, Fellow of the Royal Society3 October 1896
NLB/12/393Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Andrew Ainslie Common, Fellow of the Royal Society, Secretary, Joint Permanent Eclipse Committee, Royal Astronomical Society13 February 1896
NLB/19/233Copy letter from Michael Foster, to Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, Fellow of the Royal Society13 July 1899
NLB/20/428Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Dr William Thomas Blanford, Fellow of the Royal Society25 April 1900
NLB/19/212Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Michael Foster, [Secretary, Royal Society]13 July 1899
EC/1886/16Wharton, Sir William James Lloyd: certificate of election to the Royal Society
RR/15/29Referee's report by William James Lloyd Wharton, on a paper 'The circulation of the surface waters of the North Atlantic ocean' by H N Dickson2 April 1900
MC/13/84Letter from Evan MacGregor, Admiralty, to [Thomas Henry Huxley], President of the Royal Society, Burlington House, Piccadilly5 August 1884
MC/13Volume 13 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1884
MC/14/99Letter from [William James Lloyd] Wharton, Hydrographer, Hydrogrpahic Derpartment, Admiralty, to the Secretary of the Royal Society16 January 1886
MC/15/44Letter from Francis Galton, Chairman of the Kew Committee, Kew Observatory, Richmond, to the Secretary of the Royal Society4 June 1889
MC/14Volume 14 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1885-1888
MC/15Volume 15 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1889-1892
MC/17Volume 17 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1897-1899
MC/19/846Letter from [William] Wharton, Florys, Prince's Road, Wimbledon Park, to [Joseph] Larmor2 November 1904
MC/19/843Letter from [William] Wharton, Florys, Prince's Road, Wimbledon Park, to the Royal Society23 January 1905
MC/19/845Letter from [William] Wharton, Florys, Prince's Road, Wimbledon Park, to Royal Society28 October 1904
MC/19/844Letter from [William] Wharton, Florys, Prince's Road, Wimbledon Park, to [Robert William Frederick] Harrison20 February 1904
MC/19Volume 19 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1904
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